F-16 friendly fire incident on 18 April 2002 in Afghanistan

The Canadian readers of this forum, including me, might be interested in this:

In The Arizona Daily Star site, an article dated 2005.05.24 at
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/76550.php
reported:

KENTUCKY

“Canadians honored”

FORT CAMPBELL – The names of four Canadians [of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI, based at Edmonton Garrison, Alberta, Canada), Canadian Armed Forces] killed in an accidental American bombing in Afghanistan were added Monday to a memorial for slain members of the 101st Airborne Division.

Relatives of the soldiers wept during the annual ceremony to remember the more than 400 soldiers of the division’s 187th Infantry Regiment that have been killed in battle since World War II. The Canadians were the first non-U.S. soldiers to have a place on the memorial, which reads “Let Valor Never Fail.”

The Canadians – Cpl. Ainsworthy Dyer, Pvt. Richard Green, Sgt. Marc Leger and Pvt. Nathan Smith – were fighting alongside American forces outside Kandahar [on Thursday, 18] April 2002 when [an 170th Fighter Squadron (“Flyin’ Illini”), 183rd Operations Group, 183rd Fighter Wing (“SI”),] Illinois National Guard [F-16C Block 30] pilot mistook their live-ammunition exercises as a hostile attack and dropped a [GBU-12] 500-pound bomb.