U.S. details damage; revenge vowed. More on the acknowledged civilian deaths: ‘The Associated Press reported from Kabul that the intended target might have been a Taliban anti-aircraft position and transmission tower 300 yards away.

But the demining agency’s director suggested to NBC News that the United States might have mistaken the two-story building for a radio station. The official, Farid Elmi, said that the office housed Kabul Radio 10 years ago and that an old antenna had still stood nearby, MSNBC.com’s Preston Mendenhall reported from Islamabad, Pakistan.

The office, two miles from downtown Kabul, was on the U.N. list of its facilities in Afghanistan, Elmi added.

Bunker said the guards had not been warned or told to relocate. “It was assumed they were safe where they were. Otherwise, they would have been relocated for sure,” she said, adding that the guards were not affiliated with the Taliban. ‘ MSNBC