"It seems they decided to kill everything within a certain grid square and then find out what they had hit":
The combatant-to-civillian ratio of yesterday's airstrikes in Somalia is claimed to be roughly 1 to 30. To quote W: "The reason I say it's good versus evil is that evil people kill innocent life to achieve political objectives."
Somehow Mr. Senior Anonymous Official can claim that we hit one of the three targeted men, but not have any idea as to which one. I wouldn't pretend to have any idea of how that works, but far be it from me to cast loose aspersions on such discriminating operations.