He said, he said

The Israeli Prime Minister expressed "deep regret" over the deaths and said they were "mistaken." But he rejected a charge by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the direct hit on the position was apparently deliberate.

"It's inconceivable for the U.N. to define an error as an apparently deliberate action," Olmert said, adding that he ordered an investigation.

But then today...

U.N. observers in southern Lebanon called the Israeli military 10 times during a six-hour period to ask it to halt an airstrike before their observation post was hit, according to details of a preliminary U.N. report on the incident.

The one-liner of the day belongs to the Finnish Foreign Minister:

"These so-called precision attacks seem to be mainly targeting everyone else except the Hezbollah," said Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, who added that the attack would increase pressure for a cease-fire.