two adults. December 6. 2003 – According to both villagers and the U.S. military, 9 children – 7 boys and 2 girls from the ages of 9 to 12 – and a 25-year-old man were killed when two U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II planes attacked the village of Hutala with rockets and guns. Mullah Wazir, the intended target, was not at home at the time. U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad stated the next day that Wazir was killed in the attack, but retracted the statement shortly after. Names and ages of the children killed: Habibullah, 11; Obaidullah, 10; Faizullah, 9; Ismail Jan, 11; Nabi Jan, 9; Habibullah, 12; Aminullah, 9; Bibi Toara, 10; and Bibi Tamama, 9. 2004 January 18, 2004 – 11 civilians – 4 children and 7 adults – were killed by a U.S. air strike on a house in the village of Saghatho. 2005 July 1, 2005 – An "unknown number" of noncombatants were killed in an airstrike in Kunar province. A second source dates the incident on July 3 and places the number of victims at 17. 2006 January 14, 2006 – Several missiles were fired from a CIA-operated unmanned Predator drones over the Afghan border into the Pakistani village of Damadola in the Bajaur area. 18 civilians were killed. March 14, 2006 – Canadian troops in Kandahar open fire on a taxi, killing one of its passengers, Nasrat Ali Hassan. May 22, 2006 – 17 villagers were killed when coalition warplanes attacked Taliban forces in Kandahar Province. The U.S. military, which said dozens of militants also died in the fighting, expressed regret over the deaths. August 22, 2006 – A 10-year-old boy riding as a passenger on a motorcycle was shot and killed by Canadian troops in Kandahar. August 26, 2006 – Canadian troops shot and killed an Afghan policeman with 6 others injured. October 18, 2006 – A rocket hit a house during a nighttime clash between suspected Taliban insurgents and NATO and Afghan security forces in the farming village of Tajikai, west of Kandahar city. The rocket was fired from an aircraft and killed 13 villagers inside the home. A NATO spokesman said alliance jets and helicopters fired rockets and dropped bombs on Taliban positions in the area after 2 am October 18, 2006, but could not confirm that they hit a civilian house. He added that the Taliban had been using mortars in the