U.S. says Afghan air strikes killed 26 civilians

2009/06/19 18:03:02 @Reuters: International News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes killed roughly 26 civilians during a battle in western Afghanistan in early May, the U.S. military said on Friday in a report that calculated a far lower death toll than other estimates. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_7mos8cW4Bo:z1aX2S8oX4A:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_7mos8cW4Bo:z1aX2S8oX4A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_7mos8cW4Bo:z1aX2S8oX4A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_7mos8cW4Bo:z1aX2S8oX4A:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_7mos8cW4Bo:z1aX2S8oX4A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/_7mos8cW4Bo" height="1" width="1"/
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