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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Battling fires and rescuing people, though fascinating to behold, doesn&#39;t necessarily make for compelling drama. The challenge is telling a story that&#39;s true to the episodic nature of firefighting, yet not
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(Baghdad-WABC, September 6, 2004 ) - It could have all been a case of mistaken identity in Iraq. Sunday, Iraqi officials thought they&#39;d nabbed Saddam Hussein&#39;s former right-hand man in a shoot-out north of Baghdad.
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Racial animosity and revenge are among the possible motives in the arson fires in a subdivision in southern Maryland on Dec. 6, a spokesman for federal investigators said Sunday.
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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.
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In a Sept. 13 story about Somalia, The Associated Press erroneously attributed details about Islamic militiamen advancing on the port city of Kismayo to an official of the African Union. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was from the European Union, not the AU.
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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U.S. and British officials denied trying to hide the details of a friendly fire incident on Tuesday after a classified cockpit video was leaked showing U.S. pilots mistakenly killing a British soldier.
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U.S. and British officials denied trying to bury details of a "friendly fire" incident on Tuesday when a cockpit video was leaked in which U.S. pilots are heard weeping after mistakenly killing a British soldier in Iraq.
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Police confirmed a fatal shooting occurred outside a city government office Monday morning (Monday evening AEDT), but could not confirm the identity of the victim.
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Frightening incidents often take place, especially when shooting at different locations. But one incident
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Military investigators suspect a deadly explosion at a munitions dump outside Baghdad last year was caused by horseplay among some U.S. soldiers. But the truth may never be known.
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Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, some attention turned this week to cops who lost life, not cops who took life.
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A fire which led to a mother and two children being taken to hospital was started deliberately, police say.
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Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot.But when Johnson didn't recognize either man, he decided to involve people - a lot of them - to help crack the case.
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Mix-up blamed on officials who did not know their Tyne from their Lyme
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They say security is the reason, but critics accuse them of fanning the flames of intolerance.