An Iraqi policeman searches a motorcycle at a checkpoint in Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City. As a joint operation by US and Iraqi troops to win control of Baghdad was making more progress, their insurgent foes were fighting back with deadly new tactics, including poison gas attacks.(AFP/Ali Al-Saadi)
An Iraqi soldier walks next to a U.S. Army armoured vehicle before an early patrol in the Rasheed neighborhood, southeast of Baghdad, February 22, 2007. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Gotta love it. Keep rolling up the scumbags.
Leave it to AP to use the civillian casuatly angle without any context of the engagement. If they reported like this during WWII, then you would have thought that the civilian population for the entire eupropean continent had been killed without any military casualties