US failure 'likely' caused Afghan civilian deaths, says report Mistakes in the way airstrikes were carried out in Farah Province last month may have led to the deaths of 26 Afghans, according to a Pentagon investigation released Friday. By Gordon Lubold | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the June 20, 2009 edition WASHINGTON http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0620/p02s10-usmi.html