BAGHDAD - US troops shot dead seven Iraqis who were found setting up a mortar post near a mosque in north Baghdad, an interior ministry official and the US military said on Friday. “The seven men were intercepted by an American patrol as they set up the mortar near the Abu Hanifa Sunni mosque in Al-Adhamiya district in the north of Baghdad,” said the official, asking not to be named. The Americans opened fire, killing all seven, he added. US Brigadier General Jeffrey Hammond, the deputy commander for the US army in Baghdad, confirmed that snipers had hidden in the...
