Officials: U.S. troops mistakenly kill seven Afghan policemen in gun battle

MSNBC Breaking News ^ | Monday June 11 2007 11:00 PM MST | MSNBC Breaking News

[Steve Van Doorn]

two hours and then they shown up and shot the wrong guys? HUH?

[Amelia]

Afghan police mistakenly thought U.S. troops on a nighttime mission were Taliban fighters and opened fire on them, prompting U.S. forces to return fire and call in attack aircraft, killing seven Afghan police, officials said Tuesday.

Sort of a misleading headline if this story is correct...The U.S. forces were defending themselves.

[livius]

Yes, I think there’s some headline manipulation going on. Also, I think it would be hard for Afghan police to think US soldiers were Taliban and “accidentally” open fire on them, so perhaps there’s more to this story than we’re getting.

[AliVeritas]

Friendly fire? Seven? Yep, fog or war is right.

I guess if Karzai can run around for weeks praising his closeness with Iran... who knows what’s going on with the Afpols?

[thewitz]

I can definately relate. During the invasion of Iraq I watched that British Tornado shot down by a Patriot battery. Me and a whole bunch of Marines were cheering until we found out that it wasn’t a Scud that was hit. The next day we even had to pass by the wreckage. It sucks when things like that happen, but unfortunately they do.

[freema]

On to tonight’s good news from the enemedia:

Suicide risk much higher for male veterans
Study: Ex-troops twice as likely to kill themselves as citizen counterparts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19187272/

(I haven’t seen a report yet that identified which branch. We need a break, eh?)

[Michael.SF.]

Taranto reported on this misleading headline as well.

Yet some fools still claim that there is no left wing media bias.