Eight dead after Poles and Iraqis open fire in Karbala street clashes

Numbering around 10,000 members, the Mahdi's Army vehemently objects to the America-led occupation of the country. "I cannot confirm that [the cleric] died from a Polish bullet," said colonel Zdzisław Gnatowski, a spokesperson of Polish occupation force, adding that Iraqi police also opened fired during the incident. Witnesses claim that it was the irregulars that initiated the fire-fight. No Poles were injured. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6) M.K.