Did false tip lead to deadly strike?

An American bombing that killed up to 90 Afghan civilians last month was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill a single Taliban fighter, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said Sunday. The claim contradicted a U.S. contention that the Aug. 22 raid on the western village of Azizabad killed up to 35 Taliban fighters. "There was total misinformation fed to the coalition forces," Humayun Hamidzada, Karzai's spokesman, told The Associated Press. Afghan police arrested three suspects accused of giving the U.S. military false intelligence that led to the bombardment, the Interior Ministry has said.

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