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Iraqis Warn US Killings Will Breed Terror Recruits Thu May 1, 2003 09:24 AM ET By Saul Hudson FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Twenty bullet holes in the windshield, eight in the roof and at least four more in the blood-soaked driver's seat of the rusty taxi fuel the hatred in 14-year-old Ahmed Muthana's dark brown eyes. The Iraqi schoolboy with short-cropped hair and an unblinking stare stands erect by the car and clutches a tunic red all over from the dried blood of his uncle, shot dead by U.S. troops at an anti-American demonstration in Falluja. "I hate Americans," he said. "I want revenge. I will wait, I will join a group, and, one day, I will kill Americans," Muthana said Thursday. Monday, his father was wounded in the leg as he shepherded his seven children inside their home in front of the demonstration. Muthana's uncle was trying to reach the house to drive the boy's father to hospital when the bullets raked his orange and white cab. Muthana said he now wanted to join al Qaeda because he admired Osama bin Laden, the network's leader and alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on America. The United States invaded Iraq to eliminate what it called the direct threat of Saddam Hussein but its first pre-emptive war worried many governments around the world that it would stoke anti-American anger in the Middle East. Many residents of Falluja, a conservative Sunni Muslim city of about 270,000 people, said they would turn their anger into revenge attacks against the U.S. soldiers who have killed at least 15 people at demonstrations this week. Late Wednesday, seven U.S. soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack at their base in the city which had seen little violence in the three-week war. BREEDING SUICIDE BOMBERS Like most residents, Hend Majid, a 29-year-old housewife, said she was glad Saddam was gone after decades of brutal repression. But now the U.S. "occupation" had led to her neighbors' deaths she felt like a Palestinian under Israeli rule. Sitting in her living room where two bullets had pierced the window and flown above the cot of her 7-day-old niece, she vowed to become a suicide bomber. "I will strap explosives to my chest to get rid of them," she said. U.S. automatic rifle and machine-gun fire have left marks on the homes of five other families in the street, where demonstrators demanded the U.S. troops vacate a school they had occupied as part of their takeover of the city. Thirteen Iraqis were killed Monday. Two days later, two Iraqis were killed when U.S. soldiers opened fire in a similar incident in Falluja, 30 miles west of Baghdad. The U.S. military said its troops were shot at first in both incidents but Iraqi witnesses said the shootings were unprovoked. "Everyone here was happy at first that the Americans threw out Saddam," Ibrahim Hamad a retired soldier said. "But these killings will make all our children go off with bin Laden."