The United States army says two of its soldiers have been killed and nine wounded in northern Iraq. It said the troops were involved in an exchange of gun fire inside an Iraqi army compound near the city of Tuss. These were the first American military deaths since President Obama declared an end to combat operations in Iraq last week. Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Baghdad.
The shooting happened inside an Iraqi army base. A group of American troops was meeting counterparts from the Iraqi security forces when a man wearing an Iraqi army uniform walked in and opened fire. He wounded 11 US soldiers before he himself was shot and killed. Two of the soldiers later died of their injuries. Nine are being treated on an American base. A spokesman for the American military Major Lee told the BBC that it was not clear at this stage whether the
assailant
was an
infiltrator
or a soldier.
The campain group, Human Rights Watch has been promised 100 million dollars by the philanthropist, George Sorrows. The group must
match
this donation by raising 10 million dollars a year for ten years. The executive director of human rights watch, Can Roth, said the money would transform his organization into a truly global one. Traditionally human rights watches deployed our information in major western capitals to try to get those governments to use their influence
on behalf of
human rights. But in parts of the world today, there are emerging powers which are also quite significant, for example in Zimbabwe. We need the help of the South African government. So George's gift is going to allow us to move into key southern capitals.