{"id":58626,"date":"2015-03-08T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58626"},"modified":"2015-03-09T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:50:27","slug":"canadian-killed-by-peshmerga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58626","title":{"rendered":"Canadian killed by peshmerga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Sergeant Andrew Joseph Doiron, a Canadian Special Forces soldier was killed mistakenly by peshmerga forces when the Canadians showed up unexpectedly near the front of the fighting near the village of Bashiq where the previous day the Kurds had experienced heavy fighting. The Canadians were there to help direct supporting fires;<\/p>\n

Peshmerga spokesman Halgurd Hekmat said Sunday a group of Canadian soldiers showed up unannounced Friday to the village of Bashiq, in Iraq’s Nineveh province near the militant-held city of Mosul. The area had seen heavy fighting against Islamic State militants the previous day.<\/p>\n

“When they returned, the peshmerga asked them to identify themselves,” Hekmat told the AP. “They answered in Arabic, that’s when peshmerga started shooting. It was their fault.”<\/p>\n

Canada has 69 special forces soldiers with Kurdish peshmerga fighters in what the government calls an advising and assisting role.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Canadian Defense Minister Jason Kenney responded to allegations Sunday that Canadian soldiers were on the front line in an interview with CTV, saying that Canadian soldiers were well behind the lines when the soldier was killed. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“They weren’t on the front line,” Kenney said. “It was 200 meters from the front.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, 200 meters from the front is the front when the maximum effective range of an AK 47 is about 350 meters. Some of his mates were also wounded in the incident but they’re recovering from their wounds. And, yeah, it was the Canadians’ fault that they answered the challenge in Arabic, you know, in that region of the world, with a number of coalition forces that do speak Arabic. That was sarcasm, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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