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Us kills merchants defending shop >US TROOPS KILL MERCHANT DEFENDING SHOP AGAINST LOOTERS >Agence France-Presse, 4/11/03 > >BAGHDAD (AFP) - US soldiers shot and killed a Baghdad shopkeeper who was >defending his shop with a Kalashnikov assault rifle against looters, >neighbours told an AFP photographer. > >The merchant pulled his rifle on the thieves when they began sacking the >shop, neighbours said. > >When US soldiers approached the area, the looters told them that the >shopkeeper was a member of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Fedayeen >paramilitary force. > >The American troops opened fire with heavy machine guns, killing the man, >the neighbors said. > >The photographer saw the covered body of Mohammad al-Barheini, 25, lying >on a shelf of his shop, his head in a bag, on the Al-Rashid commercial >street in the capital.

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