Marines sure they were friendly-fire victims

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Marines sure they were friendly-fire victims

By Art Harris
CNN
Friday, October 3, 2003 Posted: 0357 GMT (11:57 AM HKT)

JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina
(CNN) -- It was the deadliest
day of the Iraq war.

Eighteen Marines were killed in
Nasiriya on March 23 as U.S. and
coalition forces drove to Baghdad.

Six months later, those who fought
alongside them told CNN they remain
bitter that an undetermined number of
their friends were killed -- not by Iraqis --
but by an Air Force A-10 they hoped was
coming to their rescue.

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Marines said they are certain it was a
U.S. warplane -- the Iraqis did not fly a
single combat mission during the war.


More: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/10/02/sprj.irq.friendly.fire/index.html

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