We're over there to kill, by golly.
U.S. forces in Iraq, already implicated in the killing of an Italian secret agent, faced more "friendly fire" embarrassment on Monday when Bulgaria said they had probably shot dead one of its soldiers.
The controversy raised questions over whether U.S. troops are over-zealous in their efforts to crack down on insurgents, who killed at least 25 people in fresh attacks on Monday.
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.
article
Embarrassment. That's all it is? And thanks to Reuters for making sure we are reminded that the insurgents are killing lots of people.
Gurdi Gurdev was shot dead when his unit came under fire 45km south of Bulgaria's base in central Iraq on Friday.
Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov said on Monday that a Bulgarian patrol trying to stop an Iraqi vehicle came under heavy fire from the direction where a US unit was based.
Aljazeera article
At the beginning of the war, after we'd killed some Brits, I read an article which stated that the British soldiers are warned when they head to Iraq to watch out for the American cowboys.
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