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U.S. Apologizes, Karzai keeps calm

The U.S. military offered its condolences Thursday after an airstrike on an Afghan army outpost killed five Afghan soldiers and injured at least seven others (Post, LATimes).  The U.S. -led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was conducting surveillance for an Afghan operation when they engaged with what they believed were insurgents in Logar province; it was later determined that the insurgents were actually Afghan National Army soldiers. Afghan President Hamid Karzai was unexpectedly muted in his reaction, given his emotional interviewearlier this week with the Washington Post and his outspoken opposition to U.S. and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan. He has cited civilian casualties from air strikes and international force operations as one reason for not signing the security agreement with the United States. But he did not immediately condemn international forces this time. He told the Associated Press on Thursday during a state visit to Sri Lanka that "NATO has admitted to me they did it mistakenly," and said that "we will investigate the issue and then speak about it" (AP). 

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