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To: kumar who wrote (90854)	4/7/2003 3:55:34 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>> But the day was also marked by a terrible allied blunder. In northern Iraq, the worst allied-fire disaster of the war occurred when an American Special Forces officer traveling with a convoy of Kurdish leaders and fighters mistakenly called down an airstrike on the column<<< We made the same error in Afghanistan, but the guy just killed himself. Real easy to do, even when you know it can happen. You just give the planes your coordinates instead of the targetshttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07CND-MILI.html?pagewanted=2