The order came over the radio: "Charlie Mike," US army jargon for "continue mission."
Cliff Hicks' team of soldiers patrolling a typically friendly neighbourhood had mistaken celebratory gunfire at a wedding for a hostile attack and had shot up a house, wounding two people and killing a little girl.
The troops didn't want to linger in the house, and their command centre ordered them out.
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