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Article: Friendly fire still deadly in today's wars; US officials agree to release leaked 2003 tape of pilots' shock after they struck British tanks.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 8, 2007
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Byline: Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
When two American A-10 warplanes strafed a convoy of British tanks with cannon fire in the early hours of the US-led invasion of Iraq, it was a tragedy for the families of the soldiers killed and wounded as well as for the pilots who thought they were attacking enemy forces.
But such fratricide - casualties caused by "friendly fire" - is also relatively unusual for modern warfare.
"It's certainly not as catastrophic as it was in World War II," says John Pike, director of
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