Staff Sgt. Craig Musselman of the US Air Force, 31, from San Antonio, Texas, is seen with his facial injury as he fights back the tears for dead comrades during a news conference at the US Army regional medical centre in Landstuhl on December 8, 2001. Musselmann is one of the 14 soldiers hurt by an off-target US bomb in Afghanistan and flown to the hospital in Germany. —REUTERS