Coalition troops arrived at a tribal elder's house in eastern Logar province on Tuesday night after villagers tipped them off that Taliban commanders had been invited to a dinner.<br /><br />When the fighters inside refused to surrender and opened fire on the NATO troops, soldiers called in an airstrike, levelling the house.<br /><br />Now, the provincial council leader says the tribal elder and 16 of his relatives and children were killed in the strike.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane reports.
