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THE WEEK, Page 24WORLDEt Cetera
UNFRIENDLY FIRE
The potential for unintended assault from an ally's gun is
a fact of life on the battlefield. But sometimes tragedy is
avoidable. Last week a British inquest decided that two U.S.
pilots had acted with reckless indifference to the rules of
combat when they inadvertently killed nine English soldiers
during the gulf war. The American officers, the jury determined,
had failed to verify map coordinates for their targets before
opening fire on vehicles they believed were Iraqi. The British
government indicated it would not press charges against the
pilots.