There are many factors to be considered when discussing friendly fire incidents, famously on d-day American paratroops were dropped behind enemy lines with radios that had been shipped from America with the wrong crystals in them crippling their communication and often meaning they came under fire from friendly artillery totally unable to identify themselves to far away units.
In Afghanistan we had 4 Canadians killed by a 500lb bobm dropped by an American pilot, incidentally I believe the one fatality in the original posted story was also Canadian.
Do you realise up until rescently the Americans had killed more british soldiers than the Iraqis?!
I mean ok, friendly fire happens, but flag down a cab and head for real street here man, the utter incompitence of US personnel has to be held in account, if a trained pilot cannot visually identify friendly vehicles they should not be in the air, they are trained to do this.
And if in any doubt, you dont bloody fire at them!
Im damn sure americans dont give a rats ass about how many Brits or Canadians their brave boys out in 'eye-rak' blow up, knowing the American millitary intimately I dare say theres some sort of friendly fire medal for them on the horizon.
"British soldiers in Iraq are being shot at on a daily basis, although obviously it'll get much safer when the Americans leave and it's only the Iraqis firing at them."
