Washington: Pakistani officials at a border coordination center gave the go-ahead to American airstrikes that inadvertently killed 24 Pakistan troops, unaware that their own forces were in the area, Wall Street Journal quoted US officials briefed on the preliminary investigation as saying.
The WSJ said an Afghan-led assault force that included American commandos were hunting Taliban militants when they came under fire from a military camp along the Pakistan-Afghan border.
The commandos thought they were being fired upon by militants. But the assailants turned out to be Pakistani military personnel who had established a temporary campsite, the newspaper quoted unnamed US officials.
