Clarifies yesterday's report...
Two US soldiers were wounded and two Iraqis killed yesterday in a grenade attack in front of a mosque in Baghdad. âTwo soldiers were hurt in a grenade attack on an armored vehicle,â said a US soldier on the scene who asked not to be named. Iraqi witnesses confirmed that a group of Iraqis threw a grenade at an American vehicle in front of the Abu Hanifa mosque in the Azamiya district of the capital.
| Then they bitched when the Americans fired back. It takes Muslims to do that... |
âThen the Americans opened fire. Two people were killed, named Abdel Wahab Ouweid Attiyah and Omar Abbad Sheikh Al-Zukhi, and three others were wounded. None of them took part in the attack,â claimed one witness, Jassem Mohammad Adhiyah.
| Oh, certainly not! We only kill innocent bystanders. It's in the rulebook... |
An apartment block across from the mosque caught fire during the incident but it was not immediately clear how.
"Mahmoud! Careful! Don't..."
[BOOM!]
"... drop it." |
Hundreds of angry Iraqis then gathered outside the mosque and faced off with the US troops at the site but there were no immediate clashes.
"Yeah! What'd y'wanna do that for, you danged Merkins?"
"Something about a grenade..." |
Qatarâs Al-Jazeera satellite television had earlier reported that a US soldier and two Iraqi passersby were killed in the attack. |