U.S. Soldiers Kill 4 Insurgents in Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20040329/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

<snip>BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. soldiers in the northern city of Mosul shot and killed four rebels suspected of involvement in attacks in the region, the military said Monday. Two American soldiers were wounded in the firefight.


The fighting came hours after gunmen fired on a convoy carrying a government minister near Mosul and the separate killings of a Canadian and Briton in the area.


On Monday, in the southern city of Basra, a freelance photographer working for Associated Press, Nabil al-Jourani, was wounded when he was shot in a leg with a rubber bullet by British soldiers while they were trying to evict some stone-throwing squatters in a house, an AP reporter said. Attempts to contact British forces in the region were not immediately successful.


On Sunday, the U.S.-led coalition shut down a weekly newspaper run by followers of a hardline Shiite Muslim cleric, saying its articles were increasing the threat of violence against occupation forces.

..."insurgents" were armed, or even if they were armed at all.

In Mosul, the four rebels were killed late Sunday in a firefight with a U.S. military police patrol, the military said in a statement. The troops had stopped the rebels' vehicle because it matched the description of one used in an earlier drive-by shooting at U.S. forces in the city.


Inside the vehicle, soldiers found assault rifles, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and other weapons. The statement said U.S. and Iraqi security forces were investigating to see whether the rebels "were involved in any of the recent attacks against Iraqi government officials, Iraqi security forces or coalition soldiers."

So I guess now you believe the article?