Insurgents Kill at Least 12 People in Iraq

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A755-2005Apr19.html

As politicians debated renewed violence, an Iraqi deputy accused a U.S. soldier of grabbing him by the throat and shoving him to the ground after he parked his car in Baghdad's Green Zone.

Fattah al-Sheikh, an independent politician, said he had parked his car ahead of a session of parliament when U.S. troops approached him and told him he didn't have the right permit.

"I don't speak English and so I said to the Iraqi translator with them, 'Tell them that I am a member of parliament', and he replied, 'To hell with you, we are Americans,"' Sheikh told parliament, fighting back tears as he recounted the story.

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