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Access denied: The Globe barred from investigating friendly fire death

When The Globe and Mail's Mark MacKinnon travelled to Iraq to investigate the "friendly fire" death of Sgt. Andrew Doiron, what he found there just created more questions – questions about who is making decisions in Canada's mission against ISIS

MARK MACKINNON
DUBARDAN, IRAQ — The Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Apr. 17 2015, 11:06 PM EDT
Last updated Saturday, Apr. 18 2015, 10:34 AM EDT

PERMISSION DENIED

 By Mark MacKinnon

 A peshmerga watch out on the Bashiq Mountains at the front near to Mosul where Canadian soldier Sgt. Andrew Doiron was killed March 6. (Hawre Khalid / Metrography)

 When The Globe and Mail's Mark MacKinnon travelled to Iraq to investigate the "friendly fire" death of Sgt. Andrew Doiron, what he found there just created more questions – questions about who is making decisions in Canada's mission against ISIS

 To get to Bashiq Mountain – and the front line between the Kurdish peshmerga army and forces of the so-called Islamic State – you drive a long bumpy highway through just-planted fields of rice and corn, passing a white-tent settlement for refugees from nearby IS-controlled Mosul, and a succession of tin-roofed Kurdish checkpoints. Somewhere nearby lies the spot where Sergeant Andrew Doiron died in a “friendly fire” incident last month.

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