Iraq Oil Unions Claim U.S. Troops Shot Chief Engineer

The Iraq Federation of Oil Unions held a protest in Basra today outside the Southern Oil Company’s office. They claim U.S. troops shot a worker in the Rumaila field, and want action by both the Iraq and U.S. governments.

"They treated him as if he was an animal, they shot at him and kept on moving," Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, told United Press International.