IRAQ: In a cramped living room in one of Baghdad's poorest neighbourhoods, Allahadin Mohammed and his brothers sat nursing their grief while in the kitchen the women sobbed.
On Wednesday Allahadin's brother, Tariq, was shot by US soldiers as he took part in an unarmed demonstration outside coalition headquarters, one of two Iraqis killed when American forces opened fire on stone-throwers in the crowd of demobbed soldiers protesting against their lack of pay.
Yesterday the consequences of America's heavy-handed response - which has also seen more than 100 Iraqis dead in the past fortnight in a crackdown on Iraq resistance groups north of Baghdad - was clear.
Tariq Mohammed (32), an officer's secretary in the Iraqi army, part-time vegetable stall worker, and mild-mannered father of five, had become another symbol for Iraqi anger that threatens to turn into a widespread revolt against the US occupation.
"My brother had been the first to welcome the Americans when they came to Baghdad," said Allahadin. "We are poor Shia here and have always hated Saddam Hussein. When my brother used to work with us on our family's vegetable stall he would talk excitedly about how when the Americans came things would be different. But now they have murdered my brother."