This story is a month old, but still worth some attention:
NATO troops called in an airstrike on a stalled Taliban convoy of fuel trucks, based on one Afghan person’s claim that there were only Taliban warriors at the site. In fact, many civilians were there because the Taliban had forcibly recruited their help in freeing their trucks from being stuck in mud. So, three 500-pound bombs later, some Taliban troops and an indeterminate number of civilians are dead, and many are wounded. [Read Washington Post Story]
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