U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan tests McChrystal's new order
• McClatchy NewsAn airstrike that Afghan officials allege killed at least 4 civilians is the first test of a new U.S. directive that American troops let Taliban fighters flee if civilian lives are at risk.
U.S. officials said it wasn't at all clear that the civilians had been killed in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan, saying the casualties appear to have been victims of small arms fires.
