NATO - Missile that killed Afghan civilians not faulty

NATO forces in Afghanistan have resumed using a type of rocket that killed 12 civilians after concluding that the missile hit its intended target and did not veer off course, a NATO commander said on Tuesday. The civilians died on Sunday, the second day of an offensive designed to impose Afghan government authority on one of the last big Taliban strongholds in Helmand, the country's most violent province. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force originally said two rockets from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launched at insurgents veered about 300 meters off course. They had been fired at a compound from where insurgents were firing at NATO and Afghan troops during the assault on Marjah in southern Afghanistan. NATO suspended use of the weapons system pending a review.