Mistaken Identities Blamed in Firefight
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 -- U.S.-led forces killed seven Afghan police officers and injured four others during a firefight that broke out after each side mistook the other for a group of insurgents, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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A series of communication breakdowns and confusion over who was in charge led to 21 firefighters being trapped and two people burned by a Nevada wildfire in July, a report said Wednesday.
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There was confusion over the hostages&#39; nationalities with local police initially saying they were from Britain, the Philippines and Kosovo and were two women and a man.
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The New York Times has identified the gunner in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in September as a 28-year-old former infantry soldier from Texas.
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Squabbling over who served tainted what to whom masks deeper rifts.
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A fired-up opponent makes shots from everywhere while the Americans scramble around desperately looking for answers.
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The last minutes of Pat Tillman's life were a horror of misdirected machine-gun fire and signals to firing colleagues that were misunderstood as hostile acts, according to an account published Sunday of the death of the NFL player-turned-soldier.
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A man suspected in the killings of six hunters told investigators he began firing after he was shot at first and some of the victims called him racially derogatory names, according to documents filed Tuesday.
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It was unclear what role the suspect might have played in last weekâs killing of a tribal leader who had collaborated with the U.S.
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The reason for the fire was not immediately known but Film City sources say it could be due to a short circuit.
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Experts struggled on Thursday to identify bodies badly burned when an Indonesian plane overshot a runway and burst into flames as it landed in the cultural capital of Yogyakarta, killing more than 20 people.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Firefighters attacked for trying to put out fires, doctors assaulted in emergency and now even funeral processions aren't safe from the ruder elements of British life.
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They say security is the reason, but critics accuse them of fanning the flames of intolerance.
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There were apparently multiple casualties, but the numbers were uncertain in the initial confusion.
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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The Yusuf Islam incident earlier this week, in which the former Cat Stevens was denied entry into the US when federal officials determined he was on the government&#39;s &quot;no-fly&quot; antiterror list, started with a simple spelling error.