A top German general has described a NATO air strike that killed up to 40 Afghan civilians as "appropriate."
Speaking in Berlin, Bundeswehr chief of staff General Wolfgang Schneiderhan announced that a NATO inquiry into the air strike had placed no blame on the German army.
On September 4 a German colonel operating in Kunduz province called in the air strike on hijacked petrol tankers in Afghanistan, apparently concerned that guerillas would use them to mount a suicide attack on his troops.
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