It's inevitable, always happens, you wish the "good guys" wouldn't do it, though.

As for the denials, unfortunately Rumsfeld and the DoD have NO credibility. Remember "Operation Swarmer"? Tillman? Lynch? WP? "Quagmire"? "Torture"? WMDs? "We know where they are!" Nukes.

Iraqi police claim US troops executed family

· Women and children shot in raid, says official report

"Iraqi police have accused American soldiers of executing 11 Iraqi civilians, including four children and a six-month-old baby, in a raid on Wednesday near the city of Balad, it was reported yesterday.
"The allegations are contained in an Iraqi police report on the killings, obtained and published by the Knight Ridder news agency. The report emerged at a time when a US navy criminal investigation is under way into a previous incident, in November, in which marines are accused of killing 15 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in reprisal for a bomb attack on a US patrol."

"Brigadier General Issa al-Juboori, who runs the joint coordination centre in Tikrit, stood by the report and said he knew the police officer running the investigation. "He's a dedicated policeman, and a good cop," Gen Juboori told Knight Ridder. "I trust him."