accident? US bomb PUK - Kurdish Party

U.S. warplanes mistakenly bomb Kurdish position in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. air strike apparently mistakenly destroyed a position of the Kurdish party led by Iraqi president Jalal Talabani on Thursday night, killing eight militiamen and wounded six others, a party official said on Friday.

U.S. warplanes bombarded the Karama military position outside Mosul City, some 400 km north of Baghdad, said Muhiy al-Dien al-Mazouri, head of media office in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

Mazouri said the victims were Peshmerga members, the military wing of the PUK, which is one of the major Kurdish parties in Iraq's northern autonomous region.