NATO confirmed on Friday that she has accidentally bombed the day before the tanks insurgents near Brega. "This is a regrettable incident. I greatly regret the loss of life, "NATO Secretary General Rasmussen said in Brussels. It was five insurgents were killed and twenty injured.
Rear Admiral Russell Harding, the deputy commander of the NATO mission, had not previously been explicitly want to apologize for the incident. He justified the attack by NATO warplanes to the fact that the Qaddafi regime had used tanks against the civilian population. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Harding said that the fighting between troops and insurgents Gaddafi had moved in the 48 hours to Friday afternoon in a fairly small area along the highway between Brega and Adschdabija back and forth.
The situation in the area in question was very confusing. "Until yesterday we had no information that the rebels used tanks," said Harding. It was not for NATO to improve their communication with the insurgents. Your order loud to protect civilians. To achieve this, NATO could act against the insurgents.
Rear Admiral Russell Harding, the deputy commander of the NATO mission, had not previously been explicitly want to apologize for the incident. He justified the attack by NATO warplanes to the fact that the Qaddafi regime had used tanks against the civilian population. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Harding said that the fighting between troops and insurgents Gaddafi had moved in the 48 hours to Friday afternoon in a fairly small area along the highway between Brega and Adschdabija back and forth.
The situation in the area in question was very confusing. "Until yesterday we had no information that the rebels used tanks," said Harding. It was not for NATO to improve their communication with the insurgents. Your order loud to protect civilians. To achieve this, NATO could act against the insurgents.
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