US bomb kills 30 at Afghan wedding, missed target

Edit: this actually happened 11 years ago. The article originally had no date attached to it. Old news, please disregard.

That's pretty shitty that we're not making sure our bombs are more accurate.

Wedding party my ass.

This might be up to Boston.

Not seeing a whole lot of diversity on the Googles regarding this story. Were all the victims 20-30 year old males?

Winning hearts and minds.

Got any evidence to back that up other than them being Afghan?

The newest insurgent tactic is to create a rift between Afghans and coalition forces through insider attacks and faulty CIVCAS. I wouldn't be surprised either way this turns out.

Remember, all of the victims are terrorists until proven otherwise!

Nope, just remembering the incident from 2002. We've had this discussion before.

Yeah, turns out this article was actually from 2002. There was no date on the article when I posted it last night, but there is now.

Yeah, a little behind the ball time wise.

See, now there's a fine example of why we call it the Daily Fail.

That's good news.

So Chad posts an 11 year old article trying to get people worked up.

He has officially entered Midnight Funeral territory.

It was undated when I first posted it. How was I supposed to know?

Yes, you seem to need one. I supposed you'd rather I go back to posting threads about gun deaths?

By verifying via more than one source?

Basic common sense.

We've had recent incidents where dozens of Afghans were killed by other Afghans and they made it into the regular news.

You really think the U.S. killing 30 Afghans in a bombing is going to be ignored?

Is finding multiple sources a common practice when people post news articles? Besides, the only other sources that pop up are dated yesterday or today. What am I, a time traveller? How the fuck was I supposed to know?

Considering what yesterday's top headline was, and given that the Iraq bombings yesterday were being under reported by US media, yes I figured something like this was likewise put on the back burner.

"on the back burner" doesn't mean the stove is turned off entirely...

Okay, the war there has been going on for twelve years or so.

What part of "don't fire weapons up in the air during celebrations" don't you people understand?

Yes, it's their culture, I get that. But did it ever occur to these people that it could be perceived as......a threat maybe?

So like MF, you jumped the gun.

Hell, he vaulted the gun......

Get over it.

In other news, North Vietnamese forces were reported to be massing in the central highlands of South Vietnam.....

Wtf Chad?!?! First you go all starguard, and now Midnight Funeral.

Is everything okay? Do we need to back off of the fat jokes?

The fat and diabeetus are eating away at my brain.