Iraqi policeman killed in US fire after bomb attack on US convoy

[Barrett808]

US forces opened fire in retaliation to the roadside bomb attack on a US police convoy in Najaf and one Iraqi policeman was killed.

Video:

http://www.ihavideo.net/news_story.jsp?guid=0a102765-31bd-49b3-9003-24466bfccd9a&cuid=5e558f72-14e1-4f88-b8ae-77a140922c36&scuid=023acef1-3340-4fbb-ad7b-53c8e3a80de7

A bit more here:

... In Manathera, a town south of Najaf, two roadside bombs exploded near a U.S. military and civilian convoy, wounding some passengers, Iraqi army Maj. Bshari Ghazali said.

U.S. soldiers then shot "by mistake" at an Iraqi policemen in the area, Ghazali said. "The soldiers thought he planted the bombs, so they shot at him and killed him immediately." ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051800392.html

[ECH1969]

1. more examples of murder just like what happened in Hadetha

[Kagemusha]

2. That's by mistake?...

They meant to kill him, just for a crime he didn't commit?

[High Plains]

3. Damn, it gets hard to support a bunch of uniformed murderers.

[grytpype]

4. Oops.

Look at it this way. They just created a job opening for some lucky Iraqi who now gets to be a policeman. Progress.