Iraqis deny US accounts of fierce fight with 'guerrillas'

..Ali Abdullah Amin..was not interested in whether the American military was telling the truth when it said that its troops had killed 54 "attackers" ..Nor was he wondering about the denials made by Iraqi hospital officials and policemen...

What he cared about, as he lay beneath a grubby yellow blanket in his hospital bed, was the pain in his bandaged legs, both of which were seeping blood from bullet wounds, and the hole in the left side of his stomach. "My legs hurt, my legs hurt," the little boy moaned...He may also have been wondering about the whereabouts of his father, Abdullah Amin al-Kurdi. Father and son were shot outside a small nearby mosque, a spot now marked by a large congealed pool of blood. Father didn't make it....

Ali and his father appear to have slipped through the net. Even though the boy's hospital bed is only 10 minutes away from the US Army's base in Samarra, and although he was easily found by journalists, he does not appear to be part of the "battle damage assessment". Asked about wounded Iraqi civilians, Major Tate said he had no information on the subject..

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=469253

...with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.