According to CNN, the Army has confirmed an
AP report that two U.S. soldiers initially announced as killed by enemy fire in June 2004 were in fact killed by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them.
The investigators found that one or more of the Iraqis attached to the American soldiers on patrol fired at them, a military official said Tuesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the military did not plan to release the report until Wednesday.
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Soldiers who witnessed the attack have told [Nadia McCaffrey, mother of Army Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr., 34] that two Iraqi patrolmen opened fire on her son's unit. The witnesses also said a third gunman simultaneously drove up to the American unit in a van, climbed onto the vehicle and fired at the Americans, she said.
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Iraqi forces who had trained with the Americans had fired at them twice before the incident that killed Patrick McCaffrey, she said.
I guess sometimes when they stand up, they shoot us down.
Remind me why we're there again?
Read the article. Ms. McCaffrey is enraged, and believes this is not the only instance.
{Please let me know if this has already been diaried.)