An Iraqi soldier? or someone DRESSED as an Iraqi soldier?
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Yes .. that’s what I’d like to see confirmed;
but since the other article says our troops
and theirs were playing a game, I’m assuming
the Iraqi .. until I hear otherwise .. was
known.
“Eleven US soldiers were engaged with small arms fire, killing two and wounding nine, inside an Iraqi army commando compound,” a US military statement said.
“The event occurred at approximately 1550 local time (1250 GMT) when a person wearing an Iraqi army uniform opened fire on the soldiers. The assailant was shot and killed and the soldiers were medically evacuated,” it added
(BBC)
“Iraqi and US troops had been playing a sports match when a quarrel erupted between one local and one US soldier, according to Major General Mohammed al-Askari, an Iraqi defence ministry spokesman.
“The Iraqi soldier opened fire on them,” he said, naming the gunman as Soran Rahman Saleh Wali.”
(Al Jazeera)