- "Bahr al-Uloum, an elderly scholar who returned
from exile in London and assumed a seat on the U.S.-appointed council,
has been a critic of U.S. policy in Iraq, saying Iraqis should assume a
larger security role."
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- BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- U.S.
forces fired at the car of an Iraqi Governing Council member on Wednesday,
wounding his driver in the foot, a council statement said. The statement
said Mohammad Bahr al-Uloum, an independent Shi'ite Muslim cleric, was
not hurt when U.S. forces mistook his car for a stolen vehicle while he
was being driven across a Tigris river bridge in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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- "A U.S. forces spokesman apologized to Mr Bahr al-Uloum
and to the Governing Council, and said that an investigation was ongoing,"
the statement said.
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- Bahr al-Uloum, an elderly scholar who returned from exile
in London and assumed a seat on the U.S.-appointed council, has been a
critic of U.S. policy in Iraq, saying Iraqis should assume a larger security
role.
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- Earlier this week, U.S forces shot and killed the mayor
of Sadr City, a poor Shi'ite suburb of Baghdad, saying he had refused to
stop for a security check and tried to wrestle a gun away from a soldier.
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- U.S. troops in September opened fire on a car carrying
an Italian diplomat who holds a senior position in the U.S.-led administration,
killing his driver. The diplomat was not hurt.
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