"Friend or foe?"

`Friendly fire' report misses larger issue, some say

Bombers have no way to ID troops on ground

By MICHAEL HEDGES
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

"Until the Pentagon gets a system that allows aircraft to interrogate a target and determine if it is friend or foe before firing, these incidents will happen again and again," said Hayles, who has worked to persuade military officials to develop combat identification systems since 1991.