FALLUJAH, IRAQ - U.S. soldiers opened fire on a crowd of Iraqi protesters late Monday. Iraqi sources say 13 Iraqis were killed and 75 injured.
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Col. Arnold Bray of the 82nd Airborne Division said soldiers fired on the crowd of 200 after some in the crowd shot at the schoolhouse where the soldiers are headquartered.

The Al-Jazeera TV network quoted people in Fallujah as saying the protestors were students between the ages of five and 20, and the U.S. troops opened fire when someone threw a rock at the school.

Bray said some of the protesters were armed.

"Ask them which kind of schoolboys carry AK-47s," he said.

I think I may be able to help the Colonel out with that one. It would be the kind of schoolboys who have spent the vast majority of their young lives being bombed, starved, beaten, and generally terrorized and now find one of the major architects of that state of affairs squatting in their village demanding their eternal gratitude for cleaning up a mess that this major architect had created in the first place. Just a hunch, Colonel.