Yikes...this won't be good for relations....

[PhillyKev 0]

U.S. Troops Mistakenly Kill 8 Iraqi Police

That sucks, for everyone involved.

[juanesky 0]

This won't either.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=5&u=/ap/20030912/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_agency_iran

"According to some of the conservatives here, it sounds like it's fine to beat your wide - as long as she had it coming." -Billvon

[kiltboy 0]

Yeah not good.

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He said the sudden appearance of one of the police vehicles, an unmarked pickup truck with a machine gun mounted on top, may have prompted the Americans to begin firing. "We shouted, 'We are police! We are police!' Then we drove off the road into a field."

It's hard to find fault here given the circumstances I doubt I'd have listened to someone in an unmarked pick up truck, with mounted machine gun, yelling they were police.

Time for some basic radio net and procedures to try and alert folks on the ground as to who is chasing who?

David

[PhillyKev 0]

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I doubt I'd have listened to someone in an unmarked pick up truck, with mounted machine gun, yelling they were police.

Wonder if they were yelling it in english. Either way though, I wouldn't take their word for it either.