The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported al-Hajjah Khalidah Faraj al-'Alwani as saying, "The American forces executed my son behind the city courthouse," without providing any further details as she collapsed before the body of her son.

Neighbors of the victim, however, explained that the boy had been arrested two days earlier by the Americans during a campaign of arrests in the city. Then on Friday the US troops drove into the area and took the boy, Muhannad Hamid, a student in the fourth year of secondary school, out of their vehicle. Muhannad Hamid was also the sole support of his mother and three sisters, as he ran a small shop where he sold candy.

The Americans stood him up in front of the wall of the mosque and unleashed a hail of gunfire on him, killing him. One of the witnesses said that Muhannad’s father had been a prisoner in the American Camp Bucca prison for more than a year.

Source: War in Iraq website www.iraq-war.ru