Nine civilians were killed today in two firefights with U.S. soldiers, local authorities reported. The military said U.S. soldiers were fired upon first in both incidents.In the capital, three people were killed in a fiery vehicle crash after gunfire erupted as they passed U.S. soldiers from another convoy stopped near the Baghdad International Airport to recover a stalled vehicle.
Officials at Yarmouk Hospital identified the dead as a manager and two female employees of a bank at the airport. Iraqi police also reported that two bodyguards were injured.A statement from the U.S. military said the three dead people were criminals who opened fire on the military convoy about 9 a.m. The statement said that the assault left bullet holes in the U.S. vehicles and that a weapon was found in the wreckage.The conflicting information in the two reports could not be immediately resolved.
Earlier today near Tikrit, about 90 miles north of Baghdad, six people were killed and two injured when a house was destroyed by a U.S. airstrike, police said. A U.S. ground patrol called in the strike after coming under fire.
Police said someone in the house heard the patrol outside about 2:30 a.m. and fired three warning shots in the air, thinking the soldiers were thieves.
link:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq26-2008jun26,0,680763.story
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