World | Afghanistan NATO Sorry for Afghan Civilian Deaths Insurgents hid in a civilian compound, says NATO commander By Mark Russell Posted May 30, 2011 6:10 AM CDT Copied Afghans shout anti-US slogans during a demonstration in Taloqan, Takhar province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, earlier this month. (AP Photo/Ezatullah Pamir) NATO apologized earlier today for an airstrike that killed at least nine civilians in the insurgent-plagued Helmand province of Afghanistan, reports AP. "I want to offer my sincere apologies for the nine civilians who were killed during the incident in Nawzad district, Helmand province," said the southwest regional commander. Officials said that insurgents launched an attack that killed a US Marine from a compound that forces did not know contained civilians. Read These Next North Carolina shooting suspect once walked the red carpet. Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Report an error