Meanwhile: Boy's Killing Angers Iraqis
Boy's Killing Angers Iraqis
Shooting Seen as a Crime
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, June 29, 2003; Page A21
BAGHDAD -- Around 10 p.m. Thursday, Mohammed Kubaisi, 12, was fatally shot in the chest on the roof of his home in Baghdad by a U.S. soldier.
Those are the only facts on which the Kubaisi family and the U.S. military agree.
For the family, it was a wanton killing, the slaying by a trigger-happy soldier of a curious, unarmed boy who was watching troops search for weapons in his neighborhood.
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