Politics

Bodies of four Iraqis are brought to U.S.

Autopsies scheduled as part
of probe of taped shooting
WASHINGTON -- The bodies of four Iraqi insurgents who died in the battle of Fallujah were expected to arrive last night at an Air Force base in Dover, Del., for autopsies as part of an expanding investigation into whether they were killed by U.S. forces after they stopped fighting, Defense Department officials said. The examinations are part of a Naval Criminal Investigative Service inquiry of the videotaped shooting of an apparently wounded and unarmed insurgent by a Marine at a Fallujah mosque last week, according to three Defense Department officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Posted by Editor at November 19, 2004 11:18 AM