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U.S. Kills Iraqi Soldiers

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Posted on Feb 9, 2007
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Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed and six wounded on Friday, Iraqi officials reported, after an American helicopter mistook them for an al-Qaida cell and opened fire. The U.S. military, which says only five were killed, expressed its “deepest sympathies” for the friendly-fire deaths.


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The Kurdish officials said US helicopters hit the men who were guarding a branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Mosul.

They said the victims were all Kurdish.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who leads the PUK, was concerned about the incident and wanted more details about what happened, his spokesman was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

The US military said the attack was launched after its soldiers had identified armed men in a bunker near a building that was reportedly used for bomb-making.

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By Frank, February 11, 2007 at 11:57 am Link to this comment
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Why does this story merit posting on Truthdig when the daily intentional slaughters by insurgents and terrorists get little coverage here?

It is becoming painfully obvious that Truthdigs’s only real standard for deciding what is newsworthy is that the story be somehow anti-US or anti-Bush.

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By Jeff Badura, February 11, 2007 at 10:43 am Link to this comment
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shame shame shame on the comments below !!! friendly fire is a unfortunate aspect of warfare !!!  pat Tillman was a American hero regardless of how he died !!!  let me see ??? do you guys think that if you were in battle and you might be killed any second that you might be trigger happy ??? i think so !! our soldiers are only human !!! more noble ones than you guys !!

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By Ethan Baker, February 10, 2007 at 8:42 pm Link to this comment
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Nearly every battle fought by every army in every war in history has suffered at least some friendly fire. This kind of thing is to be expected, especially during such a long conflict and one where the enemy hides so well amoung allies. So I wouldn’t give this incident much thought. It is by no means the first incident of its kind and it definately won’t be the last. That’s war, get used to it. Absurd, illogical over-reactions by America bashers are surly uncalled for. (hint, hint)

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By Rodney Matthewsr, February 10, 2007 at 9:44 am Link to this comment
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Shoot first and ask questions later. Doesn’t matter if your Iraqi soldiers,innocent men,women or children,British soldiers,or Pat Tillman.

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By Dale Headley, February 9, 2007 at 6:05 pm Link to this comment
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Coming in the wake of the revelation of the British soldier killed by friendly fire, this latest incident begs the question, “Are some of our soldiers trigger happy?”  Sadly, this anomalous kind of thing makes the news, while the hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children who have been routinely slaughtered in carpet bombings and white phosphorous gas attacks, escape scrutiny by U.S. media because Americans just don’t do those things. Except of course to bring freedom and democracy to the lucky survivors.

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By Quy Tran, February 9, 2007 at 5:55 pm Link to this comment
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Excellent show on earth ! Keep killing more “friendly forces” you will be heavily decorated.

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