ARBIL, Iraqi Kur­dis­tan — A lit­tle more infor­ma­tion and clar­i­fi­ca­tion on the “blue on blue” (friendly fire) inci­dent yes­ter­day in Iraqi Kur­dis­tan.
Twenty-two Kur­dish fight­ers and five Spe­cial Forces died. Forty-five pesh­mer­gas were wounded, includ­ing Waz­eri Barzani, a brother of KDP pres­i­dent Mas­soud Barzani.
The attack hap­pened not because of the cap­ture of Iraqi tanks, as early reports from Fawzi Hariri said yes­ter­day, but because a Spe­cial Forces com­man­der in the attacked con­voy called in air strikes on a nearby Iraqi tank col­umn and the Amer­i­can pilots hit the con­voy by mis­take.
More details as they become available.