The Associated Press
August 26, 2007
BAGHDAD: A U.S. helicopter attacked two Kurdish police outposts Sunday, killing four policemen and wounding eight others, a Kurdish security official said. The U.S. military said it was investigating the report.
Jabar Yawer, spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, said the attack occurred about 10 a.m. on two small police outposts on a road linking Qara Tepe and Sadiya, about 110 kilometers (65 miles) northeast of Baghdad. He said two police vehicles also were destroyed and he believed the attack was mistaken friendly fire.
He said the two posts were established about 700 meters (yards) apart along the road after al-Qaeda fighters killed a group of university students traveling the stretch of highway in June 2006.
Karwan Ghafour, a 26-year-old policeman wounded in the attack, said he did not know what could have provoked the air strike.
Yawer said police from the posts that were hit had launched a joint operation two days ago with U.S. forces and had killed a militant fighter.
Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman, said he had only partial information about an incident in that area.
"We have reports that there were two vehicles that were destroyed in the engagement by a helicopter strike," Garver said, adding that he was unable to be certain the two incidents were the same.
August 26, 2007
BAGHDAD: A U.S. helicopter attacked two Kurdish police outposts Sunday, killing four policemen and wounding eight others, a Kurdish security official said. The U.S. military said it was investigating the report.
Jabar Yawer, spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, said the attack occurred about 10 a.m. on two small police outposts on a road linking Qara Tepe and Sadiya, about 110 kilometers (65 miles) northeast of Baghdad. He said two police vehicles also were destroyed and he believed the attack was mistaken friendly fire.
He said the two posts were established about 700 meters (yards) apart along the road after al-Qaeda fighters killed a group of university students traveling the stretch of highway in June 2006.
Karwan Ghafour, a 26-year-old policeman wounded in the attack, said he did not know what could have provoked the air strike.
Yawer said police from the posts that were hit had launched a joint operation two days ago with U.S. forces and had killed a militant fighter.
Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman, said he had only partial information about an incident in that area.
"We have reports that there were two vehicles that were destroyed in the engagement by a helicopter strike," Garver said, adding that he was unable to be certain the two incidents were the same.
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