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Rahim Rahim Karim Hmait, a 43-year-old taxi driver, said he tried to evacuate several wounded people to the hospital. But as he approached an army patrol at high speed, soldiers, perhaps thinking he was a suicide bomber, opened fire on his taxi. He was hit in the abdomen, leg and hand.

“I lost control and the car smashed into one of the shops,” he said in an interview at a hospital in Sadr City, where he was taken for care. “Some of the wounded people died inside the car.”


excerpt from By KIRK SEMPLE NYT-4-18-07