US troops slay four Iraqi civilians

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

They could have just given him a ticket.

We are so karmically fucked.

It is to atrocious for words.

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.

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?