Iraq troops killed in Anbar blast, US says wasn't coalition strike
Soldiers from an Iraqi army unit in the western province of Anbar have been killed in what seemed to be a 'friendly fire' incident, an Iraqi military officer and a police source said on Thursday.
The military source said 22 soldiers were killed on Wednesday when an aircraft bombed the headquarters of an army company on the edge of Ramadi city, Anbar's provincial capital.
The source said he believed the bomb was launched from a US-led coalition aircraft, but coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran said the only strike it carried out in the province did not result in any "friendly casualties".
US military officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, indicated that Iraqi security force aircraft were operating in area where the strike occurred and that US officials are conferring with Iraqi officials about reports of a friendly fire incident among Iraqi forces.
