Weapon that killed 12 Afghan civilians is back in use

Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.
701428-weapon-that-killed-12-afghan-civilians-is-back-in-use 701428-weapon-that-killed-12-afghan-civilians-is-back-in-use 701428-weapon-that-killed-12-afghan-civilians-is-back-in-use NATO no longer calls the incident a targeting error and says the rocket launcher functioned correctly. The deaths were the first major case of civilian casualties in the Marja offensive...

...Western military officials announced Wednesday that they had resumed use of a weapon system employed in a strike that killed 12 people inside an Afghan family home, most of them women and children.





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