US bombs own convoy in N Iraq

BBC News ^ | Sunday, 6 April, 2003, 08:37 GMT 09:37 UK | BBC News World (John Simpson)

[b4its2late]

Awful, awful, awful. There has to be a better description than "friendly fire". There ain't a damn thing friendly about it.

[whadizit]

"How do they know if irt was the U.S. that bombed them?"

BBC reporter said he saw US warplane drop it. BBC s---s!!

[whadizit]

"Just damn." Royal?

We are losing entirely too many to FF, IMO. And, Special Forces are special.

[MinuteGal]

The military brass refers to friendly fire as "blue on blue fire".

Leni

[TheBattman]

I heard this on the radio earlier today. I just don't get it - the commanders MUST have known about the convoy. If they did not know then someones butt needs to be on the line here. The lines of communication obviously are not what they should be. I do not fault the pilots unless they were in a position to have postively ID'ed the convoy. I would imagine they were given a green light by higher-ups to bomb.

Pray for the killed and wounded as well as the pilots who did the bombing - they have a lot of grief to live with (that likely isn't even their fault).