US 'friendly fire' strike kills four Iraqi Kurdish policemen

[Barrett808]

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A US air strike on two Kurdish police outposts on Sunday killed four policemen and wounded eight others in the restive province of Diyala in what seems to be a case of "friendly fire," officials said.

"Four policemen have been killed and eight wounded when two US helicopters and two planes carried out an air strike this morning against two police outposts north of Baquba," Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for the Kurdish peshmerga militia told AFP.

The incident comes less than three days after a US fighter jet dropped a bomb in southern Afghanistan that was intended for Taliban rebels but ended up killing three British soldiers and wounding two more.

Yawar said the incident on Sunday occurred near the town of Qara Tepe in an area largely inhabited by Kurdish Shiites.

He said Kurdish forces have been deployed in Diyala, particularly north of Baquba, at the request of the US-led coalition forces, to "fight terrorism and the firing at the outposts was a mistake."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070826/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestuskurds

[rodeodance]

1. maybe our soldiers are indeed 'fatigued"??!!

fatigued

[seemslikeadream]

2. Recruitment up for the PKK?

[leftchick]

3. US air strikes = Friendly Fire?

oh please.

[Supersedeas]

5. but the GOP/Corp Media establishment would have you believe that only al-Caca is responsible for the

death of innocents.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Cop killers are never forgotten either. No one is above the law, except when it's an airstrike.

:crazy:

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST