
An Iraqi man beats with his shoe a smouldering U.S. Army military truck outside the city of Amarah, southern Iraq , Sunday, May 2, 2004. (AP)
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) – Shiite militiamen attacked a U.S. convoy in southern Iraq, killing two soldiers and setting vehicles on fire, even as mediators were trying Sunday to find a resolution to the U.S. standoff with the militia’s leader. Two other American soldiers were killed in Baghdad.