USS Haditha Accidentally Sinks Fishing Boat, Machine-Guns Survivors
MANAMA, Bahrain — In a rare setback for the international anti-piracy campaign off Somalia, U.S. Navy officials today admitted that the American warship USS Haditha accidentally sank a Chinese fishing vessel just east of Somalia and then inadvertently machine-gunned the survivors.
This contradicted the Haditha's initial report, which said that it had bee…
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