whoops.

From NYT:

Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that a British aid worker killed in an American rescue raid in Afghanistan last week may have been killed by a grenade detonated by a United States special forces unit — not in an explosion of a suicide bomber’s vest detonated by her Taliban captors, as the American command in Afghanistan suggested when it confirmed her death on Saturday.

Hm. Botching a rescue. How French of us. In all seriousness, though - I realize that shit happens and hostages can die, even at the hands of their would-be rescuers, but for the military leadership to lie about the circumstances like a bunch of cowards (as they appear to be doing) is just inexcusable and uncalled-for. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson after lying to the Tillmans, or after the Jessica Lynch episode.

Linda Norgrove. Her death is still under investigation.