In separate incident, Iraqi truck driver who ignored warnings killedIraqi police say a car bomb has exploded in a Shiite village in northern Iraq, killing at least four people. A provincial police officer says Saturday's explosion also wounded 38 people in the village of Gugjeli, about five kilometers (three miles) east of the city of Mosul. The police official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
An American soldier in Iraq shot and killed a truck driver who did not respond to warnings to stop on a highway north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. The incident happened at around 2:15 a.m. on Friday when the truck approached a U.S. logistics convoy that had stopped because one of its vehicles had broken down, the military said.
Soldiers flashed vehicle lights and shouted for the truck to stop, but it continued to accelerate, according to the military. A soldier thought the convoy was under attack and fired on the truck, the military said. A teenage passenger in the vehicle, identified by Iraqi officials as a brother of the driver, was not harmed. Maj. Derrick Cheng, a U.S. military spokesman, described the killing as "tragic" and said the soldier acted in line with terms of a joint U.S.-Iraqi security deal.