US troops kill Palestinian driver

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Palestine Today Network – a private network for assistance to Palestinian refugees in Iraq – announced that Muwaffaq 'Abd al-Ghani, 25, who worked as a driver transporting travelers within Iraq, was shot dead by US troops after a bomb that had been planted by the side of a road blew up near a US patrol. As is their habit, the Americans responded by shooting wildly around the area following the explosion and this time killed 'Abd al-Ghani. In a separate incident, National Guards attacked and robbed a Palestinian family and arrested one of the family members. More than 900 Palestinians have been murdered by sectarian death squads in Iraq since the American occupation of the country in the spring of 2003.