A US air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has hit the wrong target, the US military said.
The bomb demolished a house in Aaytha, killing 14 people, according to local officials. The US put the toll at five.
The military said it “deeply regrets the loss of possibly innocent lives”, and promised an investigation.
Several thousand US troops have been sent to the Mosul area recently to help quell the anti-US insurgency ahead of elections in just three weeks’ time.
That’s a nice touch. Possibly innocent lives. Like maybe they killed 14 people in a house they weren’t even supposed to be targeting and just got lucky? Or maybe there are so many bad guys in Iraq that you can randomly bomb a house and get a few? I’m not sure what else the US could do to stoke up the resistance. They’ve pretty much done everything.