WIIIAI clarifies:Jun. 28, 2005 - Police opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Tuesday wounding seven protesters, including one man who was shot in the head, witnesses and hospital staff said.
Four policemen were also injured by stones, doctors said.
Nearly 2,000 unemployed Iraqis were demonstrating in central Samawa because they had not been given jobs in the police in Samawa, 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad.
Protesters threw stones and police opened fire, first with warning shots and then shots aimed into the crowd, Reuters reporter Hamid Fadhil said from the scene.
Reuters photographer Mohammed Amin said he saw four demonstrators wounded, one of them hit by a bullet to the head.[...]
Foreign troops, apparently from British or Australian units which operate in the area of southern Iraq, observed the violence from the roof of a local authority building.
There was no sign of Japanese troops, 550 of whom operate from a base in Samawa, conducting civil reconstruction work.
The world is better off without Saddam Hussein.Today some unemployed Iraqis who had survived the often lethal process of standing in line to apply to join the police in Samawa held a demonstration because they were not then hired, and were fired on by those who had been hired.
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