US troops held five children as hostages to demand handover of insurgents near a northern Iraqi town on Tuesday, police said.
"The US forces surrounded the village of Mazraa near Baiji and detained five children under 10 years old, calling on the residents by loudspeakers to hand over several other children showed on TV channels celebrating the killing of US soldiers after roadside blast last week," a police source from Baiji told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The US troops threatened to sweep the village by Wednesday morning to detain the other children and suspected insurgents, he said.
The US military, however, said they had no information about the incident.
CRI Online, China August 16, 2005
And damned if the Brits aren't doing some lying as well.Gunmen killed two Iraqi policemen and wounded two others while US forces wounded 26 bricklayers in Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.[...]
US forces fired at a group of bricklayers at about 5:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) in Alawi district in central Baghdad, wounding 26 of them, the source said.
The US troops told the Iraqi police that they had shot at "terrorists".
"But when our patrols reached the scene they discovered the wounded people were bricklayers who left home early looking for work," the source said.
People's Daily Online August 16, 2005
US forces were last night blamed for gunning down 15 Iraqi civilians, including eight children, as they left a mosque.
They emerged after prayers as a US patrol was hit by a bomb in Nasaf, west of Baghdad. Locals claimed troops opened fire, also wounding 17 people.
But the US denied firing indiscriminately, saying five gunmen and one civilian driver were killed.
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