Sentence examples for accidental attack from inspiring English sources

The discussion centred on who would end up prevailing in the court of public opinion if information about a failed and accidental attack was revealed.

LONDON, Nov. 26 (Agence France-Presse) — Britain has opened a formal investigation into a possible instance of an accidental attack in which two Danish soldiers died in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense said Monday.

The Pakistanis often seemed to retaliate for losses they had suffered in an accidental attack by United States forces with a deliberate assault on American troops, most probably to maintain morale among their own troops or to make a point to the Americans that they could not be pushed around, said a former American military officer who served in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Should I not do it here as well?" His aides agreed that the attack should be condemned, but they worried about the implications of condemning an "accidental" attack on a journalist when Vieira de Mello had not publicly criticized the Coalition for killing Iraqi civilians.

Throughout the nine-day hearing here into whether two F-16 pilots should face a court-martial for bombing and killing four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan last year, one question loomed: Why should these men be the first Air Force pilots to face homicide charges for an accidental attack in wartime?

In 1962, when the novel by Harvey Wheeler and Eugene Burdick was published, and in 1964, when the Sidney Lumet film version was released, the story of an accidental attack on Moscow by American bombers tapped fears as real as the morning headlines.

There have been fewer reports of accidental attacks on the Afghan military.

The military uses the term "fratricide" to describe both intentional and accidental attacks by American soldiers on each.

But new technologies being tested by the American-led forces have the potential to prevent many of these accidental attacks.

WASHINGTON — The killing of 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers by American airstrikes last month might have been prevented if the precise location of a border checkpoint had been in an American database used to prevent accidental attacks on friendly forces, according to American and Pakistan officials.

As radar-directed blind bombing was prohibited to avoid accidental attacks on the Allied submarines in the area, the strike force returned to its bases without attacking.