 At least 18 people were killed in pre-dawn clashes between Shia militiamen and US soldiers in Baghdad on Friday, a medic and security officials said. Doctor Mohammed Abbas from the Al-Noor hospital in Shuala where the clashes took place said he and his colleagues had received 18 corpses of people killed in the firefight. “Those dead were killed by shrapnel and two of them are women,” he said, suggesting that some of the dead could be civilians. “We have also admitted 15 wounded people.”
| Prob'ly all of them were. You know how we like potting civilians. |
An Iraqi security official said US troops clashed with militiamen between 3:00am and 5:00am on Friday. “American soldiers in helicopters fired at militants in Shuala area before dawn,” he told AFP on condition of anonymity. The US military did not immediately comment. Pictures by an AFP photographer showed a car riddled with bullets, its windowpanes completely shattered. |