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Afghanistan: thousands displaced in Kandahar fighting by admin in Politics visit site

A Canadian soldier was killed and dozens wounded, five seriously, when two US fighter jets mistakenly strafed them Sept. 4 at a battlefront in Kandahar. (CanWest News Service, Sept. 5) If we were to engage in conspiracy theory, we could hypothesize that this wasn't really "friendly fire," but intentional retaliation for perceived Canadian national insubordination to US global leadership.