WASHINGTON, July 8, 2002 — U.S. and coalition forces unearthed another arms cache in Afghanistan while investigators wrapped up a preliminary probe into the alleged July 1 friendly fire accident in Oruzgan Province.
   "This weekend, in a small town north of Kandahar, our forces found a cache that included 29 of the shoulder-fired anti-air missiles of various makes," said U.S. Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, operations director for the Joint Staff, at a Pentagon briefing. Several arms caches of "significant size" were found last week, he added.
   Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said a joint U.S.- Afghan team has completed the preliminary investigation into the July 1 raid in southern Afghanistan that allegedly struck an Afghan wedding party in Oruzgan Province. She said a second team is slated to be in Bagram, Afghanistan, within 24 to 48 hours to conduct a full investigation.
   Headed by an Air Force brigadier general, the team will include Army, Navy and Air Force members as well as AC-130 gunship and forward air control experts. U.S. officials have asked Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to appoint an Afghan to the investigation board and to oversee Afghan participation, she said.
   "The team will tour as long as they need to tour the sites, interview villagers, pilots, forward air controllers and Special Forces and to do as thorough as possible a job on the investigation," Clarke said. "There is a lot of ground to cover, but we will work hard to get as many answers as possible."
   U.S. officials have said coalition forces were operating in the Oruzgan area that day, looking for suspected Taliban terrorists believed to be hiding there. U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers and AC-130 gunships struck several ground targets, including anti-aircraft artillery sites that were engaging the aircraft.
   Media reports say the air strikes killed more than 40 civilians and injured more than 100. Clarke said the number of civilians killed or injured remains unclear. "We know they occurred, and we regret every one of them," she said, "but we do not have hard and fast numbers from what we have seen thus far." More