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