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US apologizes for civilian deaths in Afghan strike

General meets with governor, victims’ families

By Deb Riechmann

 |  Associated Press  

  June 09, 2012

The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan offered a somber apology on Friday in an eastern province where officials say 18 civilians - half of them children - were killed in a coalition airstrike this week. U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen spent several hours with local Afghans to express his regrets about Wednesday’s pre-dawn raid to capture a Taliban operative in Baraki Barak district of Logar province.

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