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Apparently soldiers from the 4/2 SBCT were involved in this incident. The official press release from the military is linked at the end of this article.
By Joshua Partlow, Washington Post
BAGHDAD, Dec. 26 -- Two Iraqi men killed by American soldiers north of Baghdad on Tuesday, including a member of a U.S.-backed security force, were shot after one of them fired on the soldiers and the other then attempted to pick up a weapon, according to an account of the incident provided by U.S. military officials on Wednesday.
Military officials also said the soldiers, after shooting the men, placed their hands in plastic cuffs to prevent them from setting off explosives in a possible suicide attack.
The killings have angered many residents of Baqubah, the capital of Diyala province, and threatened to sour relations between U.S. soldiers and the Sunni force of volunteers they have worked with to combat the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The shooting took place in the al-Mustafa district of western Baqubah as American soldiers were on a mission searching for a man involved in suicide bombings. According to the U.S. military's version of events, at about 3 a.m. the patrol spotted a man, later identified as Uday Hassam Mohammed, in civilian clothes and carrying an AK-47 assault rifle, and shouted at him to drop the weapon. When he did not, and then fired several shots at the Americans, the soldiers returned fire, striking him in the face, said Maj. Mike Garcia, a U.S. military spokesman in Diyala province.
Another man, later identified as Hadi Jasim Rasheed, attempted to pick up Mohammed's weapon. The soldiers deemed him a threat and shot him, Garcia said.
Mohammed was a member of the U.S.-backed local volunteer security force, one of more than 70,000 people across the country now working with the U.S. military in the fight against insurgents. But the U.S. military said that at the time of the shooting, he was not wearing his orange reflective vest or belt identifying himself as such, but rather carrying them in a pouch.
[...]
Lt. Col. Ricardo Love, a battalion commander, said in a statement that there had been four suicide attacks in his area of operations in west Baqubah in the past few weeks, and suggested that the shootings Tuesday had to be put into that context.
"One of my squad leaders made a decision based on the credible threat that one of these guys could be wearing a suicide device, and I support that," Love said.\
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