April 8: A U.S. Special Forces member talks on a satellite phone to a reconnaissance team assessing Iraqi targets. This team is assigned the dangerous task of directing the aircraft to bomb enemy positions just a few thousand meters away. Just days earlier a miscommunication caused a friendly fire airstrike on a convoy near Mosul, killing at least 18 Kurdish fighters working with U.S. Special Forces.
Richard Sennott
Star Tribune
Published April 8, 2003
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