According to the Washington post :
"Police sources in the Shi'ite city said five people had been killed in the predawn operation, including four policemen. They said fighting broke out after U.S. troops wearing civilian clothes entered the al-Jamiya district in central Hilla...
...The U.S. military said gunmen opened fire on U.S. troops who were on an operation to detain a so-called "special groups" member, the military's term for rogue elements in the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr."
Such an operation would normally be the preserve of so-called 'tier one' SOF units such as Delta Force (otherwise known as CAG [combat applications group]) and the Navy SEALs DEVGRU counter-terrorism cadre.
source of story:
U.S. forces clash with gunmen in Iraq's Hilla
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