{"id":1619,"date":"2005-01-08T21:56:18","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-08T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-09T04:56:18","slug":"us-accidentally-kills-14-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/08\/us-accidentally-kills-14-iraqis\/","title":{"rendered":"US &#8220;accidentally&#8221; kills 14 Iraqis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/4158463.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Must&#8217;ve been a &#8220;dumb bomb.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A US air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has hit the wrong target, the US military said.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb demolished a house in Aaytha, killing 14 people, according to local officials. The US put the toll at five.<\/p>\n<p>The military said it &#8220;deeply regrets the loss of possibly innocent lives&#8221;, and promised an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217; time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a nice touch.  <em>Possibly innocent lives.<\/em>  Like maybe they killed 14 people in a house they weren&#8217;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&#8217;m not sure what else the US could do to stoke up the resistance.  They&#8217;ve pretty much done everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must&#8217;ve been a &#8220;dumb bomb.&#8221; 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 &#8220;deeply regrets the loss of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}