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To: E. T. who wrote (70104)	4/29/2003 10:36:50 AM
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Why oh why are optimists often wrong? Iraqis Say U.S. Troops Kill at Least 13 Protesters Tue April 29, 2003 04:52 AM ET reuters.com By Edmund Blair FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops shot dead at least 13 Iraqis staging an anti-American protest in the town of Falluja overnight, residents said on Tuesday, in a clash likely to fuel anger at the U.S. presence in Iraq. Residents of the town 30 miles west of Baghdad told Reuters that between 13 and 17 people were killed and many wounded when soldiers occupying a local school fired on unarmed demonstrators who had been calling for U.S. troops to get out of their country following the ousting of Saddam Hussein. Mourners began burying the dead on Tuesday, chanting: "Our soul and our blood we will sacrifice to you martyrs." American soldiers in Falluja declined all comment to Reuters. U.S. Central Command in Qatar said it knew nothing of a shooting and senior officers in Baghdad said they had no news. Al-Jazeera and CNN television quoted U.S. troops saying they came under fire after asking the crowd to disperse and had to retaliate. Numerous local people said about 200 unarmed people had asked the Americans to leave the school so it could reopen. "They opened fire on the protesters because they went out to demonstrate," Sunni Muslim cleric Kamal Shaker Mahmoud, who lives near the school, told Reuters. "They are stealing our oil and they are slaughtering our people," Shuker Abdullah Hamid told Reuters as he helped bury a man he said was his cousin at a local cemetery. The shooting in Falluja followed an attack on U.S. forces in the northern city of Mosul on Monday evening in which at least six Iraqi fighters were killed. At least 12 civilians were killed near Baghdad on Saturday when an Iraqi arms dump blew up, triggering protests about U.S. troops' handling of the weapons. The troubles may puncture some of the optimism expressed by Iraqis and the U.S.-British administration after a watershed meeting convened by U.S. reconstruction chief Jay Garner on Monday where some 250 Iraqis began efforts to build a democracy. Those at the meeting agreed to hold a conference within four weeks to choose an interim government to replace three decades of Saddam's iron rule. "This is the start of democracy. Discussions were serious and deep. It is a long and difficult road but we shall cross it," said one delegate, Hatem Mokhless.

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