"NO JUSTIFICATION" FOR CIVILIAN DEATHS
Venezuela raises its voice with pain and courage and morality ... let the killing of innocents in Afghanistan stop right away," he added, speaking during a lengthy, detailed account of his recent three-week tour of 14 countries.He held the pictures of the dead children, who included a baby, up close to the camera and said: "See this baby, what fault did it have? ... These children can't be blamed, not for terrorism nor for bin Laden, nor for anything like that."

"NO JUSTIFICATION" FOR CIVILIAN DEATHS
Chavez rejected this explanation. "There is no justification of any kind, you can't say it was a mistake. Ah, a mistake. And will they carry on making these mistakes?"