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pozdr. Alferek From: a78p2w[]aol.com (A78p2w) Subject: Terror w Iraku Date: 01 May 2003 13:23:57 GMT
US troops fire on new protest over killings Two more die in town where 14 were
shot dead only a day before
Jonathan Steele in Falluja
Thursday May 1, 2003
The Guardian
US troops fired at civilians yesterday as an angry crowd protested at the
killing of 14 people in the bloodiest incident since the fall of Saddam
Hussein.
Doctors at the hospital in Falluja, a town 40 miles west of Baghdad, reported
two people dead and 14 wounded in the latest protest.
It began after US commanders tried to lower tension by pulling soldiers out of
the school in a residential street where Monday's shooting occurred. The
building stood locked and empty yesterday after 100 men of the 82nd Airborne
division left under cover of darkness on Tuesday.
"I am very happy they've gone," said Mohammed Jasem, a teacher. The front of
his house opposite the school is full of holes from bullets fired by the troops
when about 200 people marched to the school, calling on them to leave. The
Americans claimed they were returning fire from gunmen in the crowd, but none
was injured and the school shows no bullet marks.
Yesterday's incident took place in broad daylight when a crowd gathered outside
a US post in a former Ba'ath headquarters on the main street. Apache
helicopters swooped low over the town.
Captain Mike Riedmuller of the 3rd Armoured Cavalry said protesters threw
stones which landed in the compound. A US convoy was passing through the town.
"Someone fired a round and hit a vehicle. The convoy returned fire. One of my
soldiers then positively identified a man with an AK-47 Kalashnikov rifle. He
was not sure he could engage him without injuring a civilian, so, as part of
our graduated response, he fired two warning shots," he said.
The mayor, Taha Dewi Hamid, appointed by local leaders after the former mayor
fled when the regime fell, said he had met community leaders and local imams
shortly before the shooting. "The unanimous view was that the Americans should
pull out of the town. Not out of Iraq, but out of the town," he said. "We have
put this to the Americans, but they have given us no promises."
He was not convinced that the Americans in the compound were to blame for
yesterday, although he did not know what happened with the passing convoy.
Former Ba'athists were paying a few people to provoke a crisis, he said. "The
Americans fired into the air after people threw stones. Someone fired at the
crowd. oraz don't believe it was the Americans who killed the people, but I'm not
sure."
Suggesting that diehards were trying to confront the Americans in a way which
the former president had failed to do, he added: "The Ba'athists here were
surprised that Saddam Hussein left power so quickly and did not resist. He is a
coward."
In the hospital, Kazal Abdul Hamid had two bones in his left calf broken by
bullets while on yesterday's protest. He had no doubts what happened. "We
weren't carrying any weapons. Before we set off we were told not to take any
guns," he said. "Four or five armoured personnel carriers came by. A soldier in
one wanted to provoke something, and fired. After that the troops in the
compound started shooting."
The two men who died both received bullets in the head. Shamil Khalif, a
hospital doctor, said he knew about weaponry, and the bullets were not from
Kalashnikovs. "It was a high-calibre American weapon," he said.
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