In the line of friendly fire

2005-03-05 17:01

Baghdad - The Associated Press has compiled a list of soldiers, journalists, police and civilians killed by friendly fire in Iraq.

March 4, 2005: American forces fire on a car carrying a freed Italian hostage as it approached a checkpoint in Baghdad, killing an Italian intelligence officer and wounding three others, including the just-released journalist.

Sept. 12, 2003: U.S. forces kill eight Iraqi police and a Jordanian security guard, and wound nine others in Fallujah in the deadliest friendly fire incident since major combat was declared over on May 1, 2003.

Aug. 17, 2003: A Reuters cameraman is shot and killed while working near U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison on outskirts of Baghdad.

April 19, 2003: A correspondent and driver for the U.S.-funded television station Al-Iraqiya are shot and killed by U.S. troops.

Aug. 16, 2003: A Danish soldier is shot and killed by friendly fire from a fellow Dane in Basra.

April 8, 2003: A Jordanian journalist for Al-Jazeera television is killed when network's Baghdad office is hit in U.S. bombing campaign.

April 8, 2003: A cameraman for the Spanish television network Telecinco and a Ukrainian TV cameraman for Reuters are killed when a U.S. tank fires at the Palestine hotel in Baghdad.

April 6, 2003: A Kurdish translator for the BBC is killed in the U.S. bombing of a joint convoy of Kurdish fighters and U.S. Special Forces in northern Iraq.

April 2, 2003: An American F/A-18C Hornet is shot down by two Patriot missile crews, killing the pilot en route to the USS Kitty Hawk.

March 31, 2003: American troops kill seven Iraqi women and children and wound two others at a checkpoint near Najaf, in south-central Iraq, when their van carrying 13 people fails to stop as ordered.

March 26, 2003: An Iraqi cameraman freelancing for ABC is killed in Fallujah, reportedly by U.S. troops firing in his direction.

March 24, 2003: Two British soldiers are killed when their Challenger II tank is hit by fire from another tank.

March 23, 2003: A U.S. Patriot missile battery shoots down a British Tornado GR4A near the Iraq-Kuwait border, killing both crew members. The jet was returning from a mission over Iraq.

March 23, 2003: 18 Marines are killed around the city of Nasiriyah, but investigators could be certain only eight died from hostile fire; as many as 10 Marines might have died in U.S. airstrikes ordered by a Marine air controller who mistook their vehicles for enemy forces.

March 18, 2003: Two employees of the United Arab Emirates-based news channel Al-Arabiya are shot and killed by the U.S. military near a checkpoint in Baghdad.

- AP