US air strike kills Iraqi troops

[malaise]

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

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

The officials described Friday's incident as an act of "friendly fire", which hit an Iraqi army position in the east of the city.

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

It expressed its "deepest sympathies" to the families of the dead.

The Kurdish officials said US helicopters hit the men who were guarding a branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Mosul.

They said the victims were all Kurdish.
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Chaos gone mad.

[Bonobo]

1. I'm sure the family really appreciates the "sorry" and has already forgiven us!

Hey, what's a little friendly fire between, well...friends?

[xchrom]

2. welcome to the surge.

[malaise]

3. Notice they're now killing Kurds

Friendly fire my a$$!! Chaos.

[xchrom]

4. chaos is right.

this is just another fine example of how -- THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING!!!

it's all so frustrating.