Oh man…….words escape me.

Yesterday there were a flurry of reports about an Iraqi soldier shooting and killing two US soldiers during a joint mission. Reported as the first time this has happened, the reports in the American press may tell only half the story.

The rather startled reports repeated assertions that the attack was for “reasons unknown.” Iraqi reports say the US soldiers were kicking a pregnant Iraqi woman when shot. Here’s what we-ve been able to learn so far.

On December 26, two American soldiers were killed during a “joint Iraqi-U.S. patrol undertaking security duty in al-Haramat area, western Mosul.”

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