Civilian deaths: U.S. expresses shame, so what do terrorists say?

The Economist reports:

THE American army delivered an apology and blood money on Tuesday May 8th to the families of 19 Afghan civilians killed in March by marines. As in similar cases in Afghanistan and Iraq the killings, which took place on a road near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, were discovered by journalists and initially misrepresented by American commanders. Announcing the climb-down, an American colonel in Afghanistan told reporters: “I stand before you today deeply, deeply ashamed and terribly sorry that Americans have killed and wounded innocent Afghan people.”

I wonder if we'll ever hear Al Qaeda or the insurgents in Afghanistan or Iraq apologizing and expressing shame about all the innocent civilians they kill.

Oh, that's right, the rules of war only apply to one side nowadays.