Fred Sypher for The Beast reports seeing what he believes were US Special Forces troops heading towards a battle near Zumar Iraq.  He relates a harried scene unfolding after American airstrikes where he was trying to get forward to report on what’s going on but was held back temporarily by his Peshmerga escort.

“Yes, we want to let you in, but we can’t,” said a high-level Kurdish official. “We have visitors, you’ll see them.”  As Sypher and company tried to decode the cryptic clue the answer came by: “multiple armored Toyotas swept down the mountain, passing within feet of us. The Toyotas were packed with what appeared to be bearded Western Special Operations Forces.  I watched the trucks pass and saw for myself the crews inside them. They didn’t wear any identifying insignia but they were visibly Western and appeared to match all the visual characteristics of American special operations soldiers.”

One Peshmerga commander replied to Sypher’s questions “Yes, German and American forces are on the ground here.”  “They are helping to support us in the attack.”

Relax folks US CENTCOM spokesman Captain Rick Haupt said there are no US troops involved in the fighting.  The President has also stated we have sent no combat troops to Iraq…