Nineteen dead as artillery shell hits wrong target.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...d=970599119419
But they're really sorry about it! Some were anyway. Others celebrated.
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Jewish extremists meeting in Jerusalem to mark the 16th anniversary of the death of radical ring-wing Rabbi Meir Kahane praised the Gaza killings, describing the strike as the work of "the holy cannon."
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And wouldn't you know it, it was a faulty computer card that caused the killings.
And here I thought it was indiscriminantly shelling a town using the most inaccurate weapon they could have chosen.
One former Israeli weapson experts seems to agree.
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One of the main architects of the Israeli weapons industry last night called on his government to end the tactic of artillery bombardment of the Gaza Strip after a volley of errant shells rained on civilian homes, killing 19 Palestinians.Arms expert Bonen Zeev called the weapons system "too inaccurate to expect no civilian casualties."
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...d=968332188492
Is anyone surprised that the US will likely veto any UN probe into this 'accident'?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...326287,00.html