"HEARTS & MINDS," ANOTHER AFGHAN EDITION

(h/t TPM)

This sort of thing has been happening for years.

10 Die in Mistaken Afghan Firefight
By CARLOTTA GALL and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
Published: January 25, 2008

KABUL, Afghanistan — At least nine Afghan police officers and a civilian were killed early Thursday in a firefight between American forces and the officers in Ghazni Province, just south of the capital, local officials said.

The American forces were searching houses in a village on the outskirts of Ghazni town and blew open the gates of a house, according to local Afghan officials. District police officers heard the explosion and rushed to the scene, suspecting that the Taliban were in the area, but were themselves mistaken for Taliban and shot by the American soldiers, the officials said. Aircraft supporting the operation fired on one of the police cars.