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Rumsfeld: Raid Facts Being Studied
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
The Associated Press

Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Earl Hailston, the top Marine Corps general for Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, is moving his command post from Hawaii to Bahrain in another sign that the U.S. anti-terror campaign in Afghanistan and elsewhere won't be over any time soon.

WASHINGTON -- AP
American forces have returned to investigate claims they killed the wrong people in a raid in Afghanistan, and they should apologize on the spot if the claims prove true, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday.

U.S. soldiers have gone to the area in Uruzgan province where special forces killed 15 or 16 people and arrested 27 in a nighttime raid two weeks ago, Rumsfeld told a Pentagon press conference.

Responding to a question, he said he had no information about reports that the Americans were apologizing for mistakes and had been paying $1,000 to the family of each man killed in the raid.

"I do know that U.S. soldiers have gone back into the area, I believe with Afghans, to try to determine the facts," he said.
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