|
|||||||
 |
|||||||
 |
|||||||
 |
|||||||
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
WASHINGTON - An Army maintenance unit that lost 11 soldiers and had several taken prisoner in an ambush in Iraq was sent in the wrong direction by other American soldiers as they sped to catch up to their convoy, a Texas congressman said Friday.
The 507th Maintenance Company was directed to go east at an American checkpoint and had traveled several miles in the outskirts of Nasiriyah when their commander realized they were heading in the wrong direction, said Rep. Silvestre Reyes.
Reyes is a Democrat from El Paso, home to Fort Bliss, where the 507th is based. He was briefed Friday by the Defense Department.
A spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Fla., Maj. Mike Escudie, said an investigation of the ambush was under way and the military would have no comment.