Afghan police and officials inspect the site of a blast in Paghman district outside Kabul. An Afghan provincial governor and three others were killed in a bomb attack near Kabul. Taliban rebels claimed responsibility for the deadly attack that was condemned by President Hamid Karzai. (AFP/Massoud Hossaini)From Yahoo News/AP:
KABUL, Afghanistan - An American military operation that killed up to 90 civilians was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill "a single Taliban," the president's spokesman said Sunday.
Afghan police arrested three suspects accused of giving the U.S. military false information that led to the bombardment of the village of Azizabad, the Afghan Interior Ministry has announced.
"There was total misinformation fed to the coalition forces," Humayun Hamidzada, the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai, told The Associated Press.
The Aug. 22 bombing has strained the U.S.-Afghan relationship, Hamidzada said. An Afghan government commission found that up to 90 civilians were killed, including 60 children, a finding backed by a preliminary U.N. report.
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My Comment: There are so many screw-ups in this attack .... I just do not know where to begin. I can only hope that the victims will receive justice, the ones who caused this attack are punished, the ones who misreported the news are disciplined, and that measures are taken to minimize such "screw-ups" in the future.
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