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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 11 > U.S. forces mistakenly kill 7 Afghans

U.S. forces mistakenly kill 7 Afghans

By Kirk Semple / The Bulletin
December 11, 2008

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. forces killed six Afghan police officers and one civilian on Wednesday during an assault on the hideout of a suspected Taliban commander, the authorities said, in what a U.S. military spokesman called a “tragic case of mistaken identity.”....

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