FRIENDLY FIRE AIRSTRIKE KILLS 9 AFGHAN SOLDIERS---WASHINGTON POST

I hope I will never read another BS report about our precision bombing techniques. That is just another LIE sold to the unsuspecting American public about how the U.S. Air Force has the equipment to make precision bombing attacks.

Coalition Airstrike Kills 9 Afghan Soldiers, Officials Say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102200176.html?hpid=topnews

By Candace RondeauxWashington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, October 22, 2008; 10:12 AM

KANDAHAR AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Oct.22 -- Nine Afghan soldiers were killed and four others injured by a U.S. airstrike on an Afghan army checkpoint Wednesday in an apparent friendly fire incident in eastern Afghanistan, according to Afghan and U.S. military officials.

The predawn airstrike occurred after a convoy of coalition troops came under fire as they returned to their base in Khost province, according to a statement released by the U.S. military. Coalition soldiers called for air support after exchanging fire with Afghan troops near an Afghan army checkpoint in the Sayed Kheil area in what military officials said could be "a case of mistaken identity on both sides."

U.S. military officials did not release the nationalities of the coalition soldiers involved in the incident. But the majority of coalition forces based in eastern Afghanistan are U.S. soldiers.