Kurds Die In Airstrike - Political Forum

CHUQ · 02-10-2007, 04:39 AM

A US airstrike kills Kurdish police.

An American airstrike targeting suspected insurgents in the northern Iraqi city Mosul has instead killed at least five Kurdish guards. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Iraqi Kurdistan that the deaths come as Kurdish forces join the new crackdown against sectarian militias.

The guards were stationed outside the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or P.U.K., a political party headed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

U.S. military officials said they received word that insurgents allied with al Qaida in Iraq were in a bunker in the area in eastern Mosul. Helicopter gunships fired on the target, but the strikes hit some of the Kurdish positions, killing at least five troops and wounding several others. U.S. officials later issued an apology for the incident.

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JUst another friendly fire incident or is there more to it?

george.d · 02-10-2007, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by CHUQ

A US airstrike kills Kurdish police.

An American airstrike targeting suspected insurgents in the northern Iraqi city Mosul has instead killed at least five Kurdish guards. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Iraqi Kurdistan that the deaths come as Kurdish forces join the new crackdown against sectarian militias.

The guards were stationed outside the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or P.U.K., a political party headed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

U.S. military officials said they received word that insurgents allied with al Qaida in Iraq were in a bunker in the area in eastern Mosul. Helicopter gunships fired on the target, but the strikes hit some of the Kurdish positions, killing at least five troops and wounding several others. U.S. officials later issued an apology for the incident.

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JUst another friendly fire incident or is there more to it?

IMO just another friendly fire incident that illustrates the ease of calling up US air strikes. Don't like your neighbor? Against your daughter marrying the wrong person or inadequate dowry offered? Notify authorities with any of the following information:

1. Suspected Al Qaeda members staying at the house (immediate helicopter gunship response level).

2. Sunni resistors staying at the house (immediate helicopter gunship response level).

3. Suspected Al Qaeda leader staying at house (immediate fixed-wing fighter/bomber response level, caution, entire neighborhood will be leveled).

4. Suspected Iranians posing as diplomats staying at house (20,000 US troops with air support will buy neighborhood, bulldose all residences around the house for an encircling command post and provide aircraft transportation for journalists to film capture).

CHUQ · 02-11-2007, 05:16 AM

I think the US will tap dance around this; we must keep the Kurds in the "good guy" catagory. The only prob is that the Kurds have their own agenda and the US is just playing nice with them, for now.

echos · 02-12-2007, 09:43 AM

So very true, The Kurds have always had their own agenda. This is quite upsetting, since the US puts such importance to them. Thankx for the link to your blog, very intresting.

CHUQ · 02-13-2007, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by echos

So very true, The Kurds have always had their own agenda. This is quite upsetting, since the US puts such importance to them. Thankx for the link to your blog, very intresting.

No prob and thanx for visiting.

The Kurds are still determined for that homeland they were promised after WWI. Their agenda, IMO, is to achieve that and their patience is just one of the tools to get what they want.