US blunders leave 15 children dead

We are killing the children here so that they do not grow up to be terrorists who will one day kill us in Topeka.

As for the earlier raid that killed nine children:

The US military originally claimed that Saturday’s bungled operation in Ghazni had killed the intended target, former Taliban district commander Mullah Wazir, who is suspected of recent attacks on road workers.

But the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, said yesterday that they could no longer be certain that this was the case. Villagers say the man killed was a local labourer who had just returned from Iran, and that Mullah Wazir had left the area days before the attack.