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US soldier removed from Iraq for shooting at Quran
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-05-19 11:27 Nadim Jabir, 33, said he lost his 4-year-old son Abbas, and that his wife and 10-year-old daughter were wounded when their mud-brick house was hit. "My wife was panicked and ran out with my three children," he said, adding he ran after them but was thrown to the ground by the force of another blast. "When the dust settled, I saw my only boy Abbas lying on the ground with many other kids. All were groaning and some kids were missing limbs. Abbas was hit in his head," he said. Residents said four other children were killed. Police and hospital officials also reported a man was killed and at least 30 people were wounded. The mortar strikes occurred as sporadic fighting continues between Shiite militiamen and US-Iraqi forces despite a peace deal reached with followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr last week. An American soldier also was killed Sunday by a roadside bomb that hit his vehicle north of Baghdad, raising to at least 4,080 the number of US service members who have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. |
