US Friendly Fire

This is getting to be a joke with the Americans now in Afghanistan:

From BBC News Site:

A US fighter plane involved in a training exercise in Afghanistan has accidentally bombed a group of Canadian troops, killing four soldiers and injuring eight others.

The incident, which occurred during a routine training exercise, happened near the southern city of Kandahar, 14 kilometres (eight miles) from the airport.

The soldiers are the first Canadians to be killed in the US-led campaign against Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan

Canadian officials said their troops were engaged in what they described as live-fire training exercise, when an American F-16 plane dropped one or two 500-pound (225 kg) bombs on them.

Two of those injured have life-threatening wounds.

Canada said it would launch an investigation into the incident and that it was assured the United States would co-operate.

More than 700 Canadian soldiers are deployed in Afghanistan and are operating out of Kandahar.

On Monday, four American soldiers were killed while blowing up unexploded rockets, also near Kandahar.