US trained Iraqi Civil Defense Corps turned their guns on our soldiers

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040405/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_shiites_baghdad&cid=1514&ncid=1473

Apache helicopters fire on Sadr supporters in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US Apache helicopters sprayed fire on the private army of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr during fierce battles in the western Baghdad district of Al-Showla, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said.


"Two Apaches opened fire on armed members of the Mehdi Army," said Showla resident Abbas Amid.


The fighting erupted when five trucks of US soldiers and the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) tried to enter the district and were attacked by Sadr supporters, Amid said.


Coming under fire, the ICDC, a paramilitary force trained by the Americans, turned on the US soldiers and started to shoot at them, according to Amid.

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[BootinUp]

1. Operation Vigilant Resolve

I just heard that term used on CNN. We are resolved to continue the same failed plans regardless of whether they make sense.

[markses]

2. What? The Iraqi Civil Defense Force

is defending the civilians of Iraq?

That's craaaaaazy. :eyes:

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Does this mean Basra police also sided with the militia there?

"Four hours later British troops were no longer in the area while policemen who had been inside the building when it was overrun were seen deployed alongside the Medhi Army militiamen."

[w13rd0]

4. Certainly looks that way...

...much strangeness afoot.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Bet we trained and armed them well too. Just like we did with bin Laden

Operation Blowback strikes again.

Don

[Paradise]

6. NNN0LHI, your "Operation Blowback" says it all! n/t