No charges in friendly fire case
The ministry of defence is not bringing any charges against soldiers involved in the recent friendly fire incident in Afghanistan which left two Dutch and two Afghan soldiers dead.
‘There is only one soldier to be held accountable and that is me,’ army chief Dick Berlijn said in a column on the ministry’s intranet system, news agency ANP reported.
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