Forced to Drive Suicide Van

Suicide Van's Driver on Forced Mission

WorldNetDaily: Driver of van on forced suicide mission? Muslim cleric says checkpoint purposely ignored, causing civilian deaths

A Shiite Muslim cleric in Iraq claims the driver of the van at a U.S. checkpoint in which at least seven women and children were killed was forced to disobey the soldiers' orders to stop, thereby causing the civilian deaths, reports Fox News Channel.

Mohammed Barkir Al-Mohari said in a translated videotape that the incident outside Najaf in southern Iraq on Monday was purposely set up to give Saddam's regime grist for criticizing the United States.

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