Shooting Salah:In Iraq sometimes wrong man,like KSU prof,gets killed

[Algorem]

http://www.clevescene.com/Issues/2005-09-14/news/news.html

On June 28, the city of Baghdad awoke to a deceitful calm.
The bulbul bird's song replaced the drone of morning prayer as men crowded into cafés to sip Turkish coffee, the sun hanging hot behind a shroud of smog and swirling sand.

In the eastern part of the city, the Mohammad Al-Kasiem highway buzzed with rush-hour traffic. As businessmen hurried to work, an American convoy of three Humvees approached an on-ramp.

The rear of each vehicle displayed a poster-board-sized sign that warned "Caution: Stay 100 meters back or you will be shot" in both Arabic and English. Atop each Humvee, the upper half of a soldier could be seen behind a mounted machine gun.

The familiar routines of morning offered the gunners little comfort. Their job was among the most dangerous in Iraq...