The families of the dead will surely sleep better at night knowing that it was all just a big mistake with the fancy weapons system. Problems like this happen often enough yet though it doesn't even slow down the military. It hardly triggers any criticism either as everyone keeps buying into the non-stop war. It's not even an issue that the main politicians even discuss, it's such a non issue. Al Jazeera:
NATO has acknowledged responsibility for an air strike that killed a number of civilians in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
A statement from the alliance said that a military missile site was the intended target of a raid on Sunday morning but one of the weapons did not strike it and may have caused civilian casualties.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oana Lungescu, a NATO spokesperson, said NATO's killing of civilians was a "sad incident that we deeply regret".
"We had targeted a missile system to the north of Tripoli and it appears that one of our weapons malfunctioned and caused these civilian casualties on the ground," Lungescu said.
Libyan officials said that nine civilians, including two children, were killed in the strike.
