Redefine war

"Safety is gained in stealth, and force is projected on the long arc of precision-guided weapons," George W. Bush said. "The best way to keep the peace is to redefine war on our terms."

US Bombs Wedding in Afghan Village
UN says hospital hit in Herat by U.S. Bombing Raid
US Forces Kill 3 Allies
Canadian soldiers Killed by US Bomb
US Submarine Kills Japanese School Children
US Spy Plane Rams Chinese Jet
US Navy Bombs Kuwait by Accident - 6 Dead
Two US Army UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopters Collide - 6 Dead
US Sailor Killed by Helicopter Rotor
Wreckage of second F-15 found in Scotland
Pilot safe as US fighter crashes off Japan
Crash investigation: What next?

U.S. Bombs Wedding in Afghan Village

Mon Jul 1, 2002 10:36 PM ET

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. planes bombed a village in central Afghanistan. Afghans said villagers were celebrating a wedding and that scores were killed and injured, including women and children. A nurse at the Kandahar hospital, said he heard that about 120 people were killed by American Forces.

The bombing occurred in the same province where U.S. special forces killed 21 Afghans when they stormed buildings in Khas Uruzgan village on Jan. 23 looking for al-Qaida and Taliban forces. The Pentagon later acknowledged that none of those killed were al-Qaida or Taliban, but Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld cleared the Americans of any wrongdoing.

Hospital officials said most of the dead and injured were women and children. One of the injured, a 6-year-old girl named Paliko, was brought to the hospital still wearing her party dress. Villagers said all members of her family were killed.

Another injured child, 7-year-old Malika, lost her mother, father, a brother and a sister, according to neighbors who brought her to the hospital.

"We have many children who are injured and who have no family," nurse Mohammed Nadir said. "Their families are gone. The villagers brought these children and they have no parents. Everyone says that their parents are dead."

U.N. says hospital hit in Herat by U.S. Bombing Raid
October 23, 2001 Posted: 6:15 PM EDT (2215 GMT)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A hospital inside the Afghan city of Herat was destroyed in a U.S. bombing raid, U.N. officials said Tuesday.

In Washington, the Pentagon acknowledged a bomb missed its target and hit near a senior citizen's home in Herat on Sunday, but said it had no estimates of casualties from that attack.

In addition, Afghan nationals working for the United Nations in Kabul said that two residential neighborhoods in the capital have been hit in airstrikes. The U.S. acknowledged that two 500-pound bombs struck residential areas northwest of Kabul.

U.S. Forces Kill 3 Allies

June 1, 2002 Posted: 6:12 AM EDT

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- U.S. special forces have killed three Afghan allies in a friendly fire incident in eastern Afghanistan.

US troops mistook a group of allies for al Qaeda fighters and opened fire. A special forces' element saw 10 to 12 men moving towards them in what appeared to be a flanking manoeuvre. One of the men in the group of allies had shouted they were there to kill al Qaeda, which apparently was ignored. Instead the special forces' element were ordered to open fire. The ensuing firefight... resulted in the death of three men, wounding two.

There has been a string of complaints from Afghans that U.S. forces have mistakenly hit the wrong targets, killing scores of people, in both air and ground attacks, AP said.

The mis-hits have included an attack on a large convoy travelling to the inauguration of the U.N.-backed interim government in December and a botched raid in the south in January in which 16 innocent people were killed.

Canadian soldiers Killed by US Bomb

April 19, 2002

Four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight were injured when a 500-pound bomb from a US F-16 hit their position at about 2 a.m. near Kandahar on April 18. The Canadians were operating in an established training area and aircraft were restricted to altitudes above 10,000 feet to avoid any incidents.

Sources say US pilots requested permission to attack the site, but permission was denied. Sources say, they were told to "mark" the location for possible attack, but instead they dropped their bomb.

US Submarine Kills Japanese School Children

February 13, 2001 Web posted at: 6:43 p.m. EST (2343 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A civilian was sitting in the right-hand control position of a U.S. Navy submarine when it hit a Japanese fishing boat carrying high school students, CNN has learned. Nine people are still missing five days after the accident.

The civilian was sitting in the helm position that controls bow and rudder movement of the sub under close supervision of an experienced helmsman last Friday, sources said.

U.S. Spy Plane Rams Chinese Jet

April 3, 2001 Web posted at: 10:45 a.m. EDT (1445 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Chinese military officials have boarded a U.S. spy plane grounded in China and removed equipment from it despite U.S. protests, Pentagon sources told CNN on Tuesday.

Chinese president Jiang Zemin has demanded the United States accept full responsibility for the collision of a Chinese fighter and a U.S. spy plane and halt all surveillance flights near China's coast.

His call came just before five U.S. diplomats arrived in the Hainan Island capital of Haikou where they are expected to meet the 24 crew members of a damaged EP-3E Aries II forced into an emergency landing early Sunday after hitting a Chinese F-8 fighter jet.

"We cannot understand why the United States often sent its planes to make surveillance flights in areas so close to China," the Xinhua news service quotes Jiang as saying.

"And this time, in violation of international law and practice, the U.S. plane bumped into our plane, invaded Chinese territorial airspace and landed at our airport."

The Chinese leader added that the U.S. must "bear full responsibility" for the mid-air collision. "We have sufficient evidence," Xinhua quoted him as saying.

China combs sea for missing pilot after a collision with a U.S. spy plane

April 3, 2001
Web posted at: 7:50 AM EDT (1150 GMT)

By Rose Tang
CNN Writer

HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- China continues to search for a F-8 fighter pilot believed to have parachuted from his aircraft after a collision with a U.S. spy plane over the South China Sea.

U.S. Navy bombs Kuwait by Accident - 6 Dead

March 13, 2001 Web posted at: 8:15 a.m. EST (1315 GMT)

WASHINGTON -- An investigation is under way into the deaths of six people killed when a U.S. Navy jet dropped a bomb in Kuwait.

Five Americans and a New Zealander, named as acting Major John McNutt, 27, died when a 500-pound bomb was dropped from an F/A-18 Hornet taking part in a training flight in Kuwait on Monday.

Seven others were injured, including five Americans and two Kuwaitis -- one of whom is suffering from shrapnel injuries to his back and arms.

They had all been watching the exercise near the Udairi firing range in a desert area in northwestern Kuwait at the time of the accident.

Two US Army UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopters Collide - 6 Dead

February 15, 2001 Web posted at: 5:15 p.m. EST (2215 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Pentagon spokesman said Thursday it was still not clear what caused two Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to collide, killing six soldiers.

March 19, 2001 Web posted at: 2:41 PM EST (1941 GMT)

By CNN National Security Producer Chris Plante

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. sailor was killed Monday aboard the warship USS Thach when he was struck in the head by the rotor of an SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter during flight operations, U.S. Navy officials told CNN.

Wreckage of second F-15 found in Scotland

March 28, 2001 Web posted at: 12:36 PM EST (1736 GMT)

LONDON (AP) -- Rescue teams found the wreckage of a second missing U.S. Air Force F-15 aircraft on Wednesday in the Scottish Highlands, and the search continued for the pilot, the U.S. Air Force said.

The first of the missing single-seat planes, as well as a body, were found Tuesday near the top of the same mountain, Ben Macdhui in the Cairngorm mountains.

The two aircraft vanished Monday, 45 minutes after taking off from Lakenheath air base, 75 miles northeast of London.

Pilot safe as U.S. fighter crashes off Japan

April 3, 2001 Web posted at: 7:48 AM EDT (1148 GMT)

Tokyo (CNN) -- A U.S. Air Force pilot was rescued after the F-16 fighter he was flying crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern Japan.

Crash investigation: What next?

March 4, 2001 Web posted at: 8:06 AM EST (1306 GMT)

By DOUGLAS WOOD

(CNN) -- Civilian and military investigators will now begin to determine what caused the crash of a Florida National Guard C-23 in Georgia on Saturday.

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