Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's visit to Washington, DC was overshadowed by a controversy over another US airstrike gone astray in Farah Province south of Herat, which left at least 30 civilians dead, (and some say over 100). Angry villagers from Bala Baluk brought truckloads of bodies, most of them women and children, to Farah's provincial capital.
On the radio yesterday I heard Hillary say that the US deeply, deeply regrets it. All fixed.
Update 5/8/09
And now that Karzai has gone…
The U.S. military said Friday that reports that as many as 147 civilians died in fighting involving American forces and the Taliban were "extremely over-exaggerated" and said the investigators were still analyzing the data collected at the site.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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