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Reports: U.S. Troops Kill Iraqi Police Officers
Aired September 12, 2003 - 06:32 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: To Iraq now. U.S. troops have mistakenly killed some Iraqi police officers at a checkpoint near Fallujah.
Let's go live again to Baghdad to find out more from Walter Rodgers.
Hello -- Walter.
WALTER RODGERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
The details are more than a little murky and they may change throughout the day. But the bottom line is that there are between 11 and 14 dead, Iraqis, and one of those may have been misidentified. He may indeed have been a dead Jordanian.
The incident began around midnight or a little after, perhaps 1:00 in the morning, in Fallujah, a town about 30 miles west of Baghdad. According to a report CNN is getting, there was an attack on the Jordanian hospital in Fallujah, Iraq. A shooting ensued. It was very close to the U.S. military checkpoint.
There isn't -- one version of the account is that there was a convoy of Iraqi police in white pickup trucks who answered the call of the shooting outside the Jordanian hospital in Fallujah, where, as I say, one Jordanian was killed and four others were injured.
Then, according to some reports we've seen, there was a chase which ensued. That chase was very close to a U.S. military checkpoint here. U.S. soldiers, not knowing what was going on, but just seeing shooting between the various vehicles and among the various vehicles, and began returning fire.
And the reports -- the initial reports out of Fallujah are that 11 Iraqi policemen were killed. We know that one Jordanian at the hospital was killed. The number of dead may go as high as 14 or more at this point. It will take the rest of the day probably to sort out all of the details.
But, again, U.S. troops mistakenly opened fire and killed some people, many of them Iraqi police -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Incredible pictures you just showed us. Of course, you're going to find out more information for us. Walter Rodgers reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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Aired September 12, 2003 - 06:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: To Iraq now. U.S. troops have mistakenly killed some Iraqi police officers at a checkpoint near Fallujah.
Let's go live again to Baghdad to find out more from Walter Rodgers.
Hello -- Walter.
WALTER RODGERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
The details are more than a little murky and they may change throughout the day. But the bottom line is that there are between 11 and 14 dead, Iraqis, and one of those may have been misidentified. He may indeed have been a dead Jordanian.
The incident began around midnight or a little after, perhaps 1:00 in the morning, in Fallujah, a town about 30 miles west of Baghdad. According to a report CNN is getting, there was an attack on the Jordanian hospital in Fallujah, Iraq. A shooting ensued. It was very close to the U.S. military checkpoint.
There isn't -- one version of the account is that there was a convoy of Iraqi police in white pickup trucks who answered the call of the shooting outside the Jordanian hospital in Fallujah, where, as I say, one Jordanian was killed and four others were injured.
Then, according to some reports we've seen, there was a chase which ensued. That chase was very close to a U.S. military checkpoint here. U.S. soldiers, not knowing what was going on, but just seeing shooting between the various vehicles and among the various vehicles, and began returning fire.
And the reports -- the initial reports out of Fallujah are that 11 Iraqi policemen were killed. We know that one Jordanian at the hospital was killed. The number of dead may go as high as 14 or more at this point. It will take the rest of the day probably to sort out all of the details.
But, again, U.S. troops mistakenly opened fire and killed some people, many of them Iraqi police -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Incredible pictures you just showed us. Of course, you're going to find out more information for us. Walter Rodgers reporting live from Baghdad this morning.
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