WASHINGTON (CNN) — A bomb that killed six civilians Monday near Baiji, Iraq, missed its target by 65 feet (20 meters) and hit the wrong home, military officials said.
The bomb, which was dropped by a U.S. fighter plane, was aimed at a building that three men entered after planting a roadside bomb as an unmanned surveillance plane watched from overhead, the officials said.
A U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet strafed the building before the bomb was dropped, according to a U.S. military statement released after the nighttime attack.
The bomb had "successful effects against the insurgents," the statement added.
The strike flattened a family’s home, killing six of the family members and wounding three others, said a spokesman for the Salaheddin provincial governor’s office. A father and daughter survived with only minor injuries, he said.
(CNN) — Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — In the deadliest day since the December 15 elections, at least 92 people were killed in Iraq and scores were wounded in separate suicide-bomb attacks, authorities said Thursday.
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