http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraq_us_army_probe"A Task Force 1st Armored Division commissioned officer was formally charged... with the murder of an Iraqi man," the military said in a statement.
"The charge stems from a May 21 incident which took place near Kufa. Soldiers conducted a high-speed chase with a vehicle that they believed to be carrying suspected members of Moqtada Sadr's militia," it said.
"During their pursuit, soldiers fired at the vehicle, wounding the driver and passenger. Shortly afterward, the driver was shot and killed at close range."
The military was referring to an incident in which Sadr aide Mohammed al-Tabtabai was arrested by US troops as he headed back from Kufa to its twin city of Najaf, 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Baghdad.
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