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The Canadians fired on a truckload of armed men who approached an artillery position west of Kandahar "at high speed," Col. Fred Lewis told reporters on Saturday. Four others travelling in the vehicle were hurt, he said.

A short time later, a motorcyle carrying two people approached the same position at high speed, Canadian officials said. Canadian soldiers once again opened fire, wounding both motorcyclists.

"It would appear that Canadian soldiers reacted in self-defence in both incidents, one of which was regrettably a friendly force on friendly force engagement," Lewis said.

"I think the key here is that these Afghan national security force members were not in uniform," he said.

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Pretty severe penalty for being out-of-uniform, even by the high standards of our highly trained, highly ethical Canadian soldiers.

These two incidents shed new light on last week's report of the killing of a 10-year-old child. At the time, there had been no report of whether he was in or out of uniform.

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These troops are in a life and death situation where a wrong split second decision could render one hamburger.

When they start shooting those not approaching them at high speed, and without adequate warning, then we have a another problem in addition.

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The aircraft belonged to Nato-led international force against the Taleban.

UK Defence Secretary Des Browne said "all indications are that this was a terrible accident".

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I believe God brought down this plane as punishment for invading Afghanistan and killing innocent Afghans.

But even if that's not right, this is no accident. The British should get the hell out of Afghanistan and Iraq before they all die. If they care about their young people, which is not at all evident.