From The Observer (a British paper which supported the war, May 4th 2003 Bloodshed and bullets fuel rising hatred of Americans

"...A crowd gathered outside the al-Ani's house last week (April , demanding that the Americans leave the school over the road so that children can return. The military opened fire, killing 13 and wounding some 35; they claimed they were shot at first.

But even if shots were aimed at them, the response was not only into the crowd; they pummelled the street, house by house, with a mighty volley and shot at occupants as they appeared in doorways.

Each of the brothers came out in turn to try and help their families and were each targeted and shot. Walid was killed and the two others wounded, along with their mother, Mufina, and her daughter-in-law, Eptisan al-Ani. In a few minutes, said Eptisan's husband, Muthana, now in the hospital bed opposite his brother, 'our family is destroyed'...

I doubt if any of the American soldiers who will be going in to Fallujah in the next few days will never have heard of this. But the people shooting at them will surely remember.

There are always horrors lying at the roots of horrors. Seedcorn.