U.S. warplanes bombed a convoy of tribal elders going to Kabul to attend the swearing in of an interim government, killing 65 people after locals misinformed the Pentagon. But a Pentagon official said the convoy was believed to be carrying leaders of the Taliban or al Qaeda. Sources in the area said that one of the dead was Mohammad Ibrahim, a brother of former mujahideen commander Jalaluddin Haqqani. Haqqani was the tribal affairs minister in the Taliban government.
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