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Well, a couple points.

(1) It is possible that these are 2 different incidents. The quotes from the father (Hassan) came from an interview at the MASH unit. So this is 1st person reporting.

(2) The source is from Knight-Ridder and printed in the Tribune. The Chicago Tribune is not, strictly speaking, a "lib" paper. They are clearly left-wing on issues like gun control, and their "letters to the editor" clearly tend to print the leftist point of view. But their war coverage has been balanced, and they are in general critical of the Daley (socialist) administration.

Things like that happen. Bad that it had to be like that. I assumed they give the warning shots. Even so there will cases that willprove a mess. While in combat trying to survive people make mistakes. Now the republican guard is fighting from a mosque. If our troops defend themselves, then the only thing we will hear, is that they destroyed a holy site. How many will have to die? How many families will have to lose a loved one following that order? I say the lives of our troops comes first. I understand why they need to issue that order, the importance in addressing the muslims at large and wining them to reason. I just hope that when people see things like that they will also remember the other instances in which restraint has cost us lives. I doubt any soldier is happy to see that he/she have killed a family.

I can not blame our troops for that.