US troops slay four Iraqi civilians

[Aidoneus]

Happy New Year?.. :eyes:

US troops slay four Iraqi civilians
Saturday 03 January 2004

Four Iraqis, including two women and a child, have been killed when a US convoy opened fire on a family car trying to overtake it in a northern Iraqi town.

Elsewhere, a soldier was killed and two injured in an attack on a US army base northwest of Baghdad, a military spokesman said on Saturday. The US military also confirmed two soldiers were killed by a bomb south of Baghdad on Friday.

The US military said it was looking into Saturday's shooting of civilians in Tikrit, but no immediate comment was available.

"The car, a grey Chevrolet Caprice, was hit by 27 shots and skidded, resulting in the death of four people, including a woman and a nine-year- old child," Tikrit police chief Colonel Usama Adham Abd al-Ghaffar told AFP.

A fifth occupant who survived the incident with chest injuries also said the vehicle had received fire from a US convoy.

"A soldier from the convoy opened fire as we tried to overtake," Ibrahim Alawi Ahmad Ali al-Amiri, 31, said from his bed in Tikrit's general hospital. He added the dead woman and child were his wife and son and the other two were his parents.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C4CF34B9-9D0C-48B2-88C7-7485ED9D6108.htm

[seventhson]

1. That will teach him to pass in a no passing zone

They could have just given him a ticket.

We are so karmically fucked.

It is to atrocious for words.

[xchrom]

2. and the innocents are still dying for wmd's

george said saddam and his gov. was a threat to us. a direct threat vis a vis wmd's -- innocent women and children driving fast in their own country does not a threat to the u.s. make.
george was and is pathetic with a lot of blood on his hands.

[izzie]

3. Payback time and we have more guns.

They, the army, know they can get away with it. With Saddam gone we also see how all this slowed way down, didn't we?

[Aidoneus]

4. "payback"?