Friday, April 08, 2011

To apologize or not to apologize for killing Libyan Rebels: a NATO dilemma

" NATO acknowledged on Friday that its warplanes had hit a rebel convoy the day before, killing of at least four people, and after some confusion eventually apologized for the accident...“I am not apologizing,” he said of the incident, the second case of friendly-fire deaths in a week. “The situation on the ground was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid, and until yesterday we did not have information” that the rebels planned to deploy tanks."