John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, was caught in a friendly fire incident while travelling with a convoy of Kurdish and US troops. He filed a report by satellite phone immediately after the attack, and a video report later in the day. Although he and his team were lightly wounded, a translator working with them was killed, along with 10 or more others.

The reportage attached to the incident is a stunning example of the immediacy of journalism in this battlefield, and John pulls no punches in his indictment of the American aerial forces incompetencies.

John Simpson’s report filed immediately after the attack
John Simpson’s video report, filed later that day

With so many “embedded” reporters travelling with coalition units across Iraq, it can’t be long before something like this — or worse — happens again.