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January 10, 2005

US troops 'did not kill Iraqis'

Topics: Middle East News and Perspectives

Here is a story that is certain to not get much attention at CBS. It turns out that insurgents killed the five Iraqis reported in the media recently, not the U.S. military. It's always important to remember that, as it says in the following article, "confusion following attacks in Iraq often leads to conflicting accounts of what happened."

The Courier-Mail (Australia) Jan 10.

FIVE Iraqis killed in a bomb blast and firefight south of Baghdad were killed by insurgents and not US troops, as some Iraqi officials had reported, the US military said today.

A statement from the 1st Cavalry Division, issued a day after the military said it had no information on the incident, said a roadside bomb blast apparently targeting US troops on Saturday killed two men in Iraqi police uniforms and a civilian.

Afterwards, US soldiers came under small arms fire which missed them but killed two Iraqi civilians, the statement said.

"Three other civilians were wounded, most likely from insurgents," the statement said.
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Posted by Hyscience at January 10, 2005 12:41 PM

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