Its also the iraqi's fault for being killed by US training exercise:thumbsup: brace4flaming

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...on=focusoniraq
US military kill 3 Iraqi civilians during training exercise
(DPA)

5 June 2006


BAGHDAD/ WASHINGTON - A US artillery round fired during a training exercise killed three Iraqi civilians and injured three others near Baquba, a US statement said on Sunday.

The 155mm round fired by the US forces on Friday also damaged six houses. The latest incident comes at a sensitive time for Iraqi-US relations. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, sharply criticized the behaviour of coalition forces in Iraq in an interview last week with the New York Times.

??They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion,? al-Maliki was quoted as saying. ??This is completely unacceptable.?

US Foreign Secretary Condoleezza Rice, engaged in damage limitation following the criticism, said Sunday the Iraqi leader had assured her of his support for coalition forces in the country.

Speaking to CNN television, Rice said the Iraqi premier told her by telephone he valued and supported the work of coalition forces and understood they had to remain on in Iraq until the country??s own security forces were able to provide security on their own.

At the same time, al-Maliki, who took office just two weeks ago, was also concerned about the latest allegations of human rights abuses by the US military in Iraq. Rice said she pledged her full support to the Iraqi premier in investigating the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines in Haditha in November 2005.

Anyone found guilty would be punished appropriately, she said.

The Pentagon is currently investigating whether the Iraqis were killed in retaliation for a roadside bomb attack on their convoy that killed a marine
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