BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military acknowledged on Sunday that it fired on a group of its anti-Qaeda allies in Iraq in an attack the leader of the group said killed three people and sparked angry protests.
Military spokesman Major Brad Leighton said members of the Awakening group fighting Al-Qaeda in the village of Jurf al-Sakher about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of Baghdad mistakenly shot at US forces, who returned fire.
"We came under fire first and returned fire. We believe the (Awakening) mistakenly targeted us and we may have killed three" Awakening members, Leighton told AFP.
The leader of the group, Sabah al-Janabi, and local police official Ali al-Lami said that a US helicopter on Saturday fired on the group, killing three.
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