Posted on 05/07/2003 10:01:27 PM PDT by null and void
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TIKRIT, Iraq – An eight-year-old Iraqi boy was accidentally struck and killed here by a High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) traveling as part of a military convoy at approximately 3:30 p.m. yesterday.
Coalition Forces express their condolences to the family of the victim in this unfortunate and tragic incident.
At the time of the accident, the child was with a group of Iraqi children lining the shoulder of a road to watch the convoy when he unexpectedly jumped in front of the vehicle to pick something up from the road. The driver of the HMMWV was unable to take evasive action due to oncoming traffic from a convoy headed in the opposite direction.
The soldiers stopped immediately and attempted to render first aid to the victim. The driver then commandeered another US military vehicle that had stopped to transport the injured child and his brother to the nearby U.S. field hospital, where the child subsequently died of his injuries.
Army Civil Affairs personnel met with the father of the deceased child at the site, who also witnessed the event, and observed the soldiers rendering first aid.
An investigation is underway into the incident.
Coalition Civil Affairs and Information Operations personnel continue to mount an aggressive education campaign to warn civilians about the dangers of crowding busy roadways.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20030522.txt
Colonel Donald Campbell of 4th Infantry Division, center, talks to the newly appointed governor of Salah ad-Din province, Hosin Jasem Mohamed al-Jbouri, right, in Tikrit, Iraq, Wednesday May 7, 2003. He is a longtime Iraqi military officer who fought the United States during the Gulf War.
- U.S. Troops Try to Build Trust in Tikrit
TIKRIT, Iraq - From the outset, it was clear that the task would be monumental.
As U.S. troops rolled into Tikrit last month, they saw, in the glowering crowd, two Iraqis waving in welcome. As soon as the convoy drove by, three other Iraqi men beat the greeters bloody with clubs, melting away before American scouts could apprehend them.
Pentagon to Increase Team on Weapons Hunt
WASHINGTON - About 2,000 more experts are being sent to Iraq to help look for banned weapons as well as regime leaders, terrorists and more.
The team is more than triple the size of the force now searching for weapons and larger than was previously described. It will be headed by a two-star general in defense intelligence, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said Wednesday.
With the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the flow of millions of dollars that the Iraqi leader sent to support the Palestinian intifada has abruptly ended.
The man who used to distribute Saddam's money, Ibrahim Za'anin, lives in Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel. You would not think from his humble bungalow that $12.5m (£7.7m) passed through his hands. But appearances can be deceptive in the Gaza Strip.
Blair wants free speech in Baghdad but not UK, says Galloway
George Galloway delivered an impassioned critique of the Labour Party's decision to suspend him last night, claiming: "Mr Blair wants free speech in Baghdad, but not in Britain."
In the immediate aftermath of a Party decision which may bar him in the autumn from winning the Labour nomination for its safe parliamentary seat in Glasgow, he said: "I could walk away now from this. I am not made of stone. I have been wounded, I have been stabbed in the back today by a party I have served for 35 years. But that would be giving a victory to people who are here today and gone tomorrow and who care nothing for Labour values."
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