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Old 2nd Apr 2011, 22:07
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NATO jets killed a number of friendlies after mistaking celebratory fire from a pickup-mounted anti-aircraft gun for hostile fire.

Standby for days of recrimination in the Western media and a bevy of lawyers arriving in Libya to oversee the multi million dollar compensation claims (followed, of course, by asylum for the injured and their extended families and the extended families of the dead).

Myself, I'd blame the CNN TV crew that must have passed the pickup truck just before the NATO attack. As everyone knows, it's mandatory for every Arab male to fire his anti-aircraft gun into the air and make the V sign whenever there's a TV crew within 500 metres.
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