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U.S. soldiers, Kurds
killed by friendly fire
Mark McDonald and Ken Dilanian
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
IRBIL, Iraq—In the latest “friendly
fire” episode of the Iraq war, American
planes apparendy fired by mistake on
friendly Kurdish guerrillas and U.S.
Special Forces soldiers on Sunday,
killing at least 18 Kurdish fighters and
injuring about 80 people.
Four Americans also were believed
to have died in the attack. U.S. officers
from the 173rd Airborne Brigade at
Bashur airfield in northern Iraq said
American Special Forces soldiers were
killed, but would not give details.
Also killed was a translator for the
British Broadcasting Corp., Kamran
Abdul Razzaq.
The U.S. Central Command said in
a brief statement: “Coalition aircraft
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were conducting close air support mis
sions at the time, and were in coordi
nation with ground forces. The cir
cumstances contributing to the
incident are under investigation. ”
Wagih Barzani, the Kurdish spe
cial forces commander and the
younger brother of the powerful
Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani,
was critically injured.
Barzani was flown by helicopter to
Bashur airfield, where he was treated
and evacuated to a military hospital in
Germany. He was in stable but serious
condition with a shrapnel injury to the
brain, said Lt. Col. Harry Stinger, the
commander of the 250th Forward Sur
gical Team.
In an interview with Knight Ridder
on March 29, Barzani said his forces
were at U.S. disposal in the fight to oust
Saddam Hussein.
“Anything the Americans need, we
are ready to provide,” he said, and
promptly invited an American re
porter to sit for a lunch of rice, bread
and fish.
The “friendly fire” incident oc
curred near Dibakan, a town recently
liberated by Kurdish guerrillas about
30 miles southeast of Mosul, Iraq’s
third-largestcity.
A group of some 18 vehicles in the
American and Kurdish convoy, includ
ing military transports and journalists’
vans, was making its way to Dibakan
when the commander of the U.S. team
reportedly stopped to call in an air
strike. It was believed he had seen an
Iraqi tank that had taigeted the convoy.
BBC “World Affairs” editor John
Simpson, who was in the convoy, said
he saw two U.S. F-14 jets come in low
over the convoy. What followed, he
said, was “every type of horror.”
“I saw the bomb coming out of one
of the planes, just one bomb and then
extraordinarily I saw it as it came down
beside me,” he said. “It was painted
white and red and it crashed into the
ground about 10 yards from where I
was standing.”
Several of the vehicles had been car
rying ammunition and rockets, which
later exploded in the fires caused by
the bombing. TV footage of the scene
showed a dozen hulks of cars and
trucks lying burned and twisted along
the road.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services. McDonald
reported from Irbil; Dilanian from Bashur.
Soldiers fall sick;
sarin suspected
Tom Lasseter
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
ALBU MUHAWISH, Iraq—U.S. sol
diers evacuated an Iraqi military com
pound early Monday after tests by a
mobile laboratory detected the pres
ence of sarin, a powerful nerve agent.
The testing came after more than a
dozen soldiers from the Army’s 101st
Airborne Division who guarded the
military compound on Saturday night
came down with symptoms consistent
with exposure to very low levels of
nerve agent, including vomiting, dizzi
ness and skin blotches.
The soldiers, along with a Knight
Ridder reporter, a CNN cameraman
and two Iraqi prisoners of war, were
sent for decontamination and hosed
down with water and bleach.
A spokesman for U.S. Central
Command in Qatar said the military
was investigating.
If subsequent tests uphold the find
ings, it would be the first evidence of
weapons of mass destruction, a cor
nerstone of the Bush administration’s
rationale for the invasion of Iraq and
something that eluded United Nations
inspectors for months.
Early tests for chemical agents at
the compound were inconsistent.
Some showed the presence of so
called G-Series nerve agents, which in
clude tabun and sarin, both of which
Iraq has been known to possess. A
hand-held scanning device also indi
cated the soldiers had been exposed to
a nerve agent. Other tests, however,
came back negative.
A senior defense official in United
States said Sunday night that the mili
tary was aware of “false positive” read
ings, and there were “no deleterious ef
fects” on military personnel due to
nerve-agent exposure.
More precise tests by an Army Fox
mobile nuclear, biological and chemi
cal detection laboratory indicated the
existence of sarin and triggered the
evacuation of the captured military
compound by dozens of soldiers.
Even as the tests were being done,
high-ranking commanders hastened
to the scene on Sunday to examine the
sites. They made no comment after
ward on what was contained in the
sites near the village of Albu Muhaw
ish, on the Euphrates River about 60
miles south of Baghdad.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
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