Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television aired footage Monday of the purported shooting of a US soldier in Iraq by a member of the so-called Islamic Army in Iraq. The brief grainy footage, which was later posted on the Internet, shows a US soldier in his uniform and helmet falling to the ground near an armoured vehicle after being shot by an alleged sniper from the militant group. A child is seen running across as the soldier is hit. The channel said it received the tape Monday but there was no independent verification of its authenticity. "On this morning of Ramadan 21, October...