What are they saying?

Just heard on the BBC the end of a story about a village in Afghanistan that was bombed to kill a bunch of Taliban. The BBC was talking about the large number of civilian casualties that accompanied the Taliban ones - it is a village, after all - and Dan Damon, the news reader, asked the reporter what those in charge of the bombing said about the civilian casualties.

Ah, the Beeb ... Just recapped it (5:32 am) as 50 Taliban deaths claimed after a bombing raid while doctors say there were at least 30 civilian deaths and 50 injured

The answer, not surprisingly, was they weren't. Saying anything, I mean.

I know what they were thinking, though: the immortal words of William T. Sherman:

Nits Make Lice

Updated at 6:04 to point out that not even NPR is so much as mentioning the village bombing...