Bei einem irrtümlichen US-Angriff auf einen von US-Einheiten begleiteten kurdischen Fahrzeugkonvoi in Nordirak sollen mindestens zwölf Menschen getötet worden sein.

Im Weblog "Back in Iraq 2.0" sind Informationen zum heutigen "Friendly Fire" nachzulesen:

Arbil in Mourning
ARBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan — We arrived today in Arbil, the seat of the Kurdistan Regional Government, to find a city on edge and in mourning. An American fighter jet had just hit a convoy of peshmergas and U.S. Special Forces in a friendly fire incident that left at at least seven Kurdish fighters and possibly three American troops dead. Also killed were several civilians, including the translator for BBC’s John Simpson, Kameran Abdulrazzaq.

The details of the attack remain unclear, but the attack by an F-15E Strike Eagle seems to have occurred after the lightly armed Kurds and American troops captured one or two Iraqi tanks intact, said Fawzi Hariri, assistant to the head of the International Affairs bureau for the KDP. The pilot of the American plane mistook the allied forces on the ground and attacked.

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