GIMME LIBERTY and GIVE ME DEATH

U.S. Soldiers Go Off On Iraqi Civilians

Iraqis complain that many innocent people have died at surprise U.S.
checkpoints thrown up on dark streets shortly before the curfew. Drivers
hurrying home say they don't see the soldiers or hear their orders to stop.

``They killed us. There was no signal. Nothing at all. We didn't see
anything but armored cars,'' Anwaar said Sunday.

``Our headlights were on. He (her husband) didn't have time to put his foot
on the brake. They kept shooting. He was shot in the forehead."

Haydar Kawaz, 18, was sitting up in the back of the car with a bullet wound
in his head. His sister, 17-year-old Olaa, slumped dead into his arms.


When the shooting stopped and the American soldiers were gone, Taha said, he
and other neighbors ventured out about 11 p.m. and took the bodies of the
brother and sister from the car, placed them on the pavement and covered
them with a sheet.

The Americans had taken the bodies of Adel, the husband, and another child,
8-year-old Mirvet. Two days later, the family still did not know where the
bodies were taken.

- "Jittery U.S. Soldiers Kill 6 Iraqis," Associated Press, Aug 10

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