A few miles away, near a fort that served as a Taliban military base, five houses seem to have been mistakenly bombed.

Due to ground fog, he argues, the German pilots missed their targets and mistakenly bombed the town.

The mental hospital that the Americans mistakenly bombed has been replaced with a cluster of pink buildings that can accommodate 100 patients.

During this attack the French School at Frederiksberg was also mistakenly bombed resulting in the death of many children.

Miss Tawana's early years were spent in a monastery until it was mistakenly bombed in April 1942.

The Americans said they were escorting the Kurds to prevent them from being mistakenly bombed by American planes.

It was the night of 8/9 May, when clear conditions prevailed and when Dublin was mistakenly bombed.

(Two other widely scattered cities in Germany and France were also mistakenly bombed during the same mission.)

In 1998 the Colombian Air Force, working from intelligence supplied by an American company, mistakenly bombed a village, killing 17.

Pilots concede that in at least one case, an American warplane mistakenly bombed the wrong building in Falluja.