US air strike kills Iraqi troops

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Friday, 9 February 2007

Eight Iraqi soldiers have been killed and six wounded in a US air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, local officials have said.

The US military said five men were killed, and said the intended target had been a suspected al-Qaeda cell.

The US 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.

The troops called for the men to put down their weapons in Arabic and Kurdish, before launching the strike, the US said.

It is not clear if a rocket was fired by a helicopter or a plane.

The men who died were all Kurdish.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6346901.stm

[liberal N proud]

1. We don't even know who we are shooting at...

Earlier this week we heard about shooting at the British, now the Iraqis...

I guess bu$h has to make sure they can't stand up so we can stand down.