Victory
30-04-03, 00:43
US troops kill 13 Iraqis
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3:21:31 PM
Fallujah, April 29 - US troops shot dead 13 Iraqis, at least six of them children, during a protest to mark Saddam Hussein's birthday, witnesses said Tuesday, overshadowing the surrender of a key weapons advisor to the toppled president.
Witnesses in the town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, said that US troops had opened fire late Monday on demonstrators celebrating Saddam's 66th birthday, killing 13 and wounding 45.
"The shooting broke out when 500 protestors carrying portraits of Saddam and Iraqi flags approached a school manned by US troops," said Mohammed Hamid, a resident of the town, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of the capital.
Another witness who asked not to be identified said the US soldiers were "not threatened by the demonstrators."
Of the 13, dead who were swiftly buried Tuesday in accordance with Islamic tradition, six were children aged just seven or eight, the second witness said.
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3:21:31 PM
Fallujah, April 29 - US troops shot dead 13 Iraqis, at least six of them children, during a protest to mark Saddam Hussein's birthday, witnesses said Tuesday, overshadowing the surrender of a key weapons advisor to the toppled president.
Witnesses in the town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, said that US troops had opened fire late Monday on demonstrators celebrating Saddam's 66th birthday, killing 13 and wounding 45.
"The shooting broke out when 500 protestors carrying portraits of Saddam and Iraqi flags approached a school manned by US troops," said Mohammed Hamid, a resident of the town, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of the capital.
Another witness who asked not to be identified said the US soldiers were "not threatened by the demonstrators."
Of the 13, dead who were swiftly buried Tuesday in accordance with Islamic tradition, six were children aged just seven or eight, the second witness said.