Friendly fire probed in Canadian soldier's death

[maddezmom]

Source: CBC news

Military officials are investigating whether a Canadian soldier may have been killed accidentally by a private security force escorting a civilian convoy in the Zhari district west of Kandahar city.

Master Cpl. Joshua Roberts was shot to death during a joint operation aimed at disrupting insurgent activity in the rugged farming area.

But there is speculation that members of a security convoy opened fire on what they believed to be enemy fighters and didn't realize Canadian troops were already in the area engaging the group of about 15 insurgents.

Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson told reporters over the weekend the military is investigating whether insurgents or members of the private security company were responsible for Roberts's death.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/11/afghanistan-death.html?ref=rss

[TrogL]

1. The US needs to stop doing that

This isn't the first time US forces have fired on Canadian troops that they asked to be deployed to the area. In other words, they knew they were there.