…US forces west of the northern city of Kirkuk killed a 10-year-old child and wounded a 25-year-old man when they opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators who pelted them with stones, hospital director Abdullah Jiburi claimed.
However, a US military spokesperson denied Tuesday that US forces shot the boy saying “somebody within the crowd shot him.”
Fourth Infantry Division (4th ID) spokesperson Major Josslyn Aberle disputed Jiburi’s account of the protest, describing the demonstration as “some sort of salary dispute … not anti-US, nor pro-Saddam.”
An AFP correspondent on the scene said the casualties occurred when around 500 protestors carrying portraits of Saddam took to the streets of Hawija and began pelting US soldiers with stones.
Isn’t democracy a beautiful thing…