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2007-02-10 Iraq

US airstrike mistakenly kills 5 Kurdish fighters

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Posted by Steve White 2007-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is sad. We need all the friends we can get in this area. The Kurds are generally good soldiers. I will mourn the loss of "blues".

Posted by Lone Ranger 2007-02-10 03:13|| 2007-02-10 03:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh! It's not just the Brits they're trying to kill, then.

Posted by Jens Claimp2916 2007-02-10 05:28|| 2007-02-10 05:28|| Front Page Top

#3 We're equal opportunity fratriciders. Been know to kill our own. War is like that and has been for a while.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-10 07:00|| 2007-02-10 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Jens, save your sarcasm. Americans have friendly fire incidents even on other Americans, depending on the intel. Luckily it seems to be reduced since past wars.

The kurdish government understands it's a mistake made during the darkness of night.

Posted by Angenter Crolugum3645 2007-02-10 07:00|| 2007-02-10 07:00|| Front Page Top

#5 In a way, it's good. The enemy kills so few of our people and allies that the few we kill by mistake are significant. We killed thousands of our own in WWII, but the Germans and Japanese killed so many more it wasn't noticed.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-02-10 08:14|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-02-10 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't be parochial, Jens Claimp2916 dear. We accidentally killed Canadian troops in Afghanistan long before yours had any cause for concern. That's the problem when your government won't spend the money to give the troops modern equipment so that they can talk to the Yanks overhead. As Procopius2k says, that kind of thing has always happened -- this is real life, where Murphy's Law rules, not a computer game or a Hollywood film.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-10 12:52|| 2007-02-10 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 My dad was caught in a friendly-fire incident in France in 1944. Twenty-two of his buddies were killed when a bomber dropped its ordinance on them. It happens. Most of the time, the bombers were greeted with cheers.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-02-10 15:02|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-02-10 15:02|| Front Page Top

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