AP Gets Agreement Wrong in Headline

The Associated Press provides headlines and articles to my AT & T homepage. Here is a headline that made me cringe this morning:



Iraqis still needs US military, official says



Whoops! Here we go again with my pet peeve--incorrect subject/verb agreement. You can have one Iraqi or many Iraqis. If you write about more than one and put the "s" on the noun (subject), you cannot ALSO put an "s" on the verb "need."



This headline should read as follows:



Iraqis still need US military, official says