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Iraqis furious over raid
(The Hindu, July 28, 2003)
. . . a U.S. raid that killed five Iraqi civilians as they unwittingly drove into a firestorm. . . . Furious residents of the upscale Mansur district accuse the U.S. soldiers of firing indiscriminately at passing cars on Sunday as colleagues raided a villa in a vain search for Saddam Hussein. . . . ``The cars came down the road. They didn't know the Americans were here. They were normal civilians and wanted to go home,'' one witness told Reuters today. They (U.S. soldiers) opened fire right away.'' . . . A soldier at a nearby hospital said the bodies of five people had been brought in from the scene of the raid, including a boy in his early teens. This morning not a soldier was in sight in Mansur, and four burned or bullet-riddled cars had been taken away. "All these things are making people hate the Americans,'' said a Mansur resident. "In the beginning, all the Iraqi people welcomed the Americans, but now the Americans have built a wall between themselves and the Iraqi people.'' . . . Residents who witnessed the shooting said about 75 U.S. soldiers poured into the area in the early evening, blocking off the main street but failing to prevent innocent motorists straying into the fire zone from quiet side streets.

posted by LoZo 2:19 PM