If this level of crass incompetence can happen to UK Military personnel in their own secure base, what chance for the 'compound' people - the poor farmers and villagers in rural Afghanistan? BBC News - Christopher Roney: Failures led to Apache friendly fire death: "L/Cpl Christopher Roney was killed in 2009 when two US Apache helicopters attacked a British base in Afghanistan. The inquest in Sunderland heard the crews fired 200 rounds before they realised their mistake. L/Cpl Roney, 23, from Sunderland, was serving in Sangin, Helmand, with the 3rd Battalion The Rifles. After a five-day hearing Coroner Derek Winter listed a series of errors.''
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