Official sorry for 'stupidity' comment - Seattle Post Intelligencer

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An Iraqi soldier jumps over cars that were burnt outside a police station Friday during fighting in Amarah , 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Baghdad Saturday Oct. 21, 2006. Relative quiet returned Saturday to Amarah where masked gunmen loyal to an anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr briefly seized control a day earlier in a bold confrontation with local security forces. Two days of clashes between elements of the Mahdi Army loyal to radical cleric Muqtada ...