Sentence examples for bombed the wrong target from inspiring English sources
A survivor said he believed that the airstrike had been intended for Qaddafi forces, and that the allies had bombed the wrong target because a rebel fighter had fired a heavy machine gun into the air.
"Israel bombed too much and bombed the wrong targets, falling back upon cookie-cutter conventional targeting in attacking traditional military objects," Mr. Arkin wrote.
The Americans said that they were fired on first and that Pakistan approved the airstrikes; the Pakistanis say the Americans did not wait for clearance to fire and then bombed the wrong targets.
A typical example came in 2001, when a Navy pilot in a night exercise at Kuwait's Udairi bombing range aimed at the wrong target, killing five American observers and a New Zealander.
Flower, a professor of pharmacology at the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and the London hospital, said: "If you are controlling a drone and you shoot the wrong target or bomb a wedding party, who is responsible for that action?
Rod Flower, chair of the report's working group, rightly asks: "If you are controlling a drone and you shoot the wrong target or bomb a wedding party, who is responsible for that action?
B3 On the Ground ANOTHER ERRANT MISSILE -- American warplanes bombed the same Red Cross complex in Kabul that they struck 10 days ago, an error the Pentagon said occurred because military planners had picked the wrong target.
Moments later, after Commander Zimmerman had programmed his aircraft to aim at the wrong target, the Air Force controller at the observation base authorized him to drop his bombs, using the code words "cleared hot".
