Tuesday's Bloodshed...
- Brooks said the U.S. troops guarding the wall fired warning shots after seeing some people in the crowd shooting weapons into the air. The Americans then were shot at and began firing at some people in the crowd, including some who tried to climb over the wall, he said.
"It was lethal fire, and some Iraqis were killed as a result of that," Brooks said. "We think the number is somewhere on the order of seven, and there may have been some wounded as well."
Earlier reports quoted witnesses as saying as many as 10 Iraqis may have died and dozens were wounded. Those accounts said the crowd became unruly during a speech by the city's new governor-general outside his office.
Several of those wounded in Wednesday's incident accused American troops of firing at them from rooftops, but a Marine sergeant near the scene denied that. He said U.S. troops on top of a building came under fire from gunmen on another building across a park and the Americans shot back.
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