Saturday, October 13, 2007

""This airstrike was excessive, as usual, which led to the fall of civilians," Khamas added. "People here are now carrying great hatred against the Americans after the raid. This airstrike turned their Eid to grief." The U.S. military provided little further information Friday but said it was investigating the incident with local officials and tribal leaders. A U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Winfield S. Danielson III, said the initial death tolls of combatants and civilians were estimates. Of the 15 civilians initially reported killed, all were women and children, and it was unclear whether the U.S. military considered all the males killed to be insurgents."