“I am not apologizing,”

 

"... “I am not apologizing,” he said of the incident, the second case of friendly-fire deaths in a week. “The situation on the ground was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid, and until yesterday we did not have information” that the rebels planned to deploy tanks. But later, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, urged the alliance to adopt a less combative stance. “I think we should say that it is deeply regrettable,” he told the BBC, “and I think when something like this happens, it doesn’t cost anything to apologize.”