NationStates Jolt Archive

BAGHDAD (AlJazeera) - U.S. forces in Iraq, already implicated in the killing of an Italian secret agent, faced further strains with allies on Monday when Bulgaria said they had probably shot dead one of its soldiers.
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The Bulgarian soldier was killed in southern Iraq on Friday evening, around the same time that U.S. forces in Baghdad opened fire on a vehicle taking kidnapped Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to the airport shortly after her captors freed her.
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Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolai Svinarov said an investigation into the death of the Bulgarian soldier showed he was probably accidentally killed by American troops.
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Svinarov said the Bulgarian army's chief of staff had written to General Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, asking for an investigation.

Many Iraqis say U.S. forces are too quick to open fire and often kill innocent civilians.

Sun Mar 6, 9:56 AM ET

SOFIA (FrenchPress) - Bulgarian will decide later this month whether it will keep its troops in Iraq (news - web sites) until the end of 2005, Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov said after the eighth Bulgarian soldier was killed there on Friday.

can I have the link?

BAGHDAD (AlJazeera) - U.S. forces in Iraq, already implicated in the killing of an Italian secret agent, faced further strains with allies on Monday when Bulgaria said they had probably shot dead one of its soldiers.
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The Bulgarian soldier was killed in southern Iraq on Friday evening, around the same time that U.S. forces in Baghdad opened fire on a vehicle taking kidnapped Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena to the airport shortly after her captors freed her.
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Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolai Svinarov said an investigation into the death of the Bulgarian soldier showed he was probably accidentally killed by American troops.
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Svinarov said the Bulgarian army's chief of staff had written to General Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, asking for an investigation.

Many Iraqis say U.S. forces are too quick to open fire and often kill innocent civilians.
One of the men under my command in Vietnam accidentally shot another while we were in the midst of a firefight. My best friend from college was killed by a short round of American artillery.

War is messy business and the opportunity for things to go wrong is often high, especially when soldiers are under great stress as they are in Iraq. Yes, "friendly fire" casualties are tragic. Yes, civlian casualties are tragic. War itself is tragic. File it all under "Things we should do something about when people no longer feel the need to attack each other."

can I have the link?
was afk...
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq.html?ex=1110862800&en=6ae4f727f674103b&ei=5070