schmidlap
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Preliminary reports:Iranians, and all carpet merchants, tend to use children as shields. Any collateral damage deaths of children tends to be due to this.
March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, did not rule out the possibility that new evidence could emerge that absolves the U.S. of responsibility and points to another responsible party in the incident.
If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.
Reuters could not determine how much longer the investigation would last or what evidence U.S. investigators are seeking before the assessment can be completed...
My speculative assessment is that inadequate preparation and lack of reliable intelligence resulted in the tragedy. It's inexcusable.
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