Let's not be naive
"I have not seen the pictures but bad things happen in wars. I don't have to apologise for the conduct of my men."
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the US military in Iraq, earlier said the attack by US aircraft had targeted "a suspected foreign fighter safe house", 16 miles east of the Syrian border.
The images of dead women and children on Arab television were a fresh setback for a US mission already beset by a scandal over torture in prisons, as George W Bush, the American president, prepares this week to detail plans for handing limited sovereignty to Iraqis.
Witnesses said the attack was on a house where a wedding had been held and that the strike killed 41 people.
The Herald Glasgow May.21.04
