At least 10 dead as US troops open fire on protest

AT LEAST 10 people were killed and scores wounded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul when US troops fired on a crowd angered

The charges were denied by a US military spokesman in the city yesterday, who said troops had first come under fire from at least two gunmen and fired back, without aiming at the crowd.

But the incident overshadowed the start of US-brokered talks aimed at sketching out the country’s future leadership in the southern city of Nasiriyah, a Shi’ite Muslim bastion where 20,000 people marched through the city chanting “No to America, No to Saddam”.