NATO 'friendly' strike kills Afghan security officers

Reported by Sydney Morning Herald on Sunday, 8 November 2009 (on November 8, 2009)

Seven Afghan security personnel have been killed in a mis-targeted NATO air strike in the country's remote northwest, the defence ministry says, signalling further trouble for a fraying Western military effort.

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