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Autor: "h.habiger" (2003-06-28 11:43:51)
..... zum Abenteuer.
Das wollten sie doch - etwas Abwechslung vom täglichen Einerlei...
U.S. Soldier Shot Shopping in Baghdad-Witnesses
Fri June 27, 2003 09:14 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was shot in the head while buying
digital video discs at a shop in Baghdad on Friday, the shop owner and
other witnesses said.
The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the report. It was not
clear from witness
accounts whether his wound was fatal.
The shop owner, who refused to give his name, said the soldier had
come into the DVD shop
in the Kazimiyah neighborhood in the northwest of the city at around
11 a.m. and picked up
two discs.
"He took out dollars from his pocket and as I looked at the money I
heard a bang. He froze
and then fell backwards," the owner told Reuters Television. "Two
other soldiers came in,
picked him up and took him away."
Other witnesses corroborated the owners version. One said he saw a
young man shooting
the soldier at close quarters in the lower head.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in a spate of attacks
on Thursday as armed
resistance to American and British military occupation appeared to
be rising.