STILL LOSING HEARTS & MINDS

You'd think that after years of this, we'd wise up.

U.S. troops accused of wounding Iraqis
Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:58pm EST

SAMAWA, Iraq (Reuters) - An Iraqi provincial governor accused U.S. troops of opening fire on civilian cars south of Baghdad on Sunday, wounding six people, and threatened to suspend ties with U.S. officials over the "brutal" attack.

Ahmed Marzok, governor of the southern Shi'ite province of Muthanna, said six people were wounded, including two policemen, in the attack near al-Rumaitha, north of the provincial capital of Samawa, 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad.

A minibus driver said two of his passengers were wounded when soldiers in a military convoy opened fire. "We were driving on one side of the road and when they came we pulled aside, but they opened fire," the driver, who did not give his name, told Reuters.

Last week, the U.S. military said its forces had killed 25 suspected militants in an attack targeting al Qaeda fighters in Taji, north of Baghdad. But the head of a Sunni Arab tribal group working with the U.S. military said 45 of his men had been killed by U.S. military aircraft as they manned checkpoints.