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Susan Hull, the dead soldier's widow, said that her family felt the verdict was correct.
"There have to be lessons learnt," she said."It's very clear that after such a death evidence is required - full evidence, right from the beginning.
"If that doesn't happen in circumstances like this then this will all have been in vain," she said.
The inquest, in the southern England city of Oxford, heard the pilot of one of two US A-10 "tankbuster" planes opened fire on Hull's clearly-marked armoured vehicle convoy in southern Iraq on March 28, 2003.
Hull, a 25-year-old British soldier, died and four other soldiers were injured in the attack.
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Susan Hull wanted George Bush, the US president, to help the inquiry by producing 11 censored lines from an interview between a ground controller and one of the pilots.
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Geraldine McCool, Susan Hull's lawyer, said the unlawful killing verdict did not mean the US pilot could face a criminal prosecution, nor would they be seeking it.