Word: blunders
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...also prove to have been the U.S.'s most calamitous blunder. According to authorities in Uruzgan and the surrounding area, the Americans killed the wrong guys. The soldiers slaughtered at Sharzam, they say, were not enemy fighters but anti-Taliban troops loyal to U.S.-backed interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. They belonged to a military commission appointed by the new provincial government to oversee the collection of leftover Taliban weapons. "A terrible mistake has been made," said Abdul Ghani, an Uruzgan businessman...
...Philippine military brass admit a mistake was made - a colossal blunder - but say it was an error of judgment: apparently the soldiers were called away to a strategy meeting. They did not, insists the military, get paid off to let the rebels go. Father Nacorda says hospital staff saw Brigadier General Romeo Dominguez's aides carrying briefcases full of cash inside the hospital, though they didn't see any change hands between soldiers and rebels. Nacorda believes the army paid a ransom for the hostages, pocketing a cut for themselves. Brigadier General Dominguez, whose integrity is praised inside...
...provocative, supersmart and, oh yeah, just a little sexy." The last word seemed to be accompanied by the sound of a zipper. News executives said no one on their side had been consulted, nor had Zahn herself. The ad was pulled first thing Monday. Calling the ad a "major blunder," CNN chairman Walter Isaacson said in a statement, "I am outraged, and so is Paula, who has spent more than 20 years proving her credibility day in and day out on the air." Still unexplained is how the network managed to overlook the erotic appeal of Lou Dobbs...
...large as Klatsky’s misses would loom, an even bigger Penn blunder might have been a fumbled defensive rebound by Quaker forward Ugonna Onyekwe earlier in the extra session...
...later split up, communicating via human messengers and walkie-talkies. The implosion of Taliban-held territory left both men with few places to run outside of southeastern Afghanistan, and intelligence sources told TIME they believed friction between the two would lead one of them to make a fateful blunder that gave away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told TIME. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden] is." American warplanes were dispatched to help finish the job. EGBU-28 bunker busters burrowed through yards of limestone...