Man said killed by U.S. fire is buried
Dozens of angry mourners buried an Egyptian man who they said was killed by shots from an American cargo ship as it passed through the Suez Canal. Family and friends buried Mohammed Fouad, 27, a father of two, in Suez, the city at the Red Sea entrance to the canal.
U.S. officials said American military guards aboard the ship, contracted to the U.S. Navy, fired warning shots toward approaching motorboats Monday night, and they said they had received no report of anyone being killed.
The incident occurred when the merchant ship Global Patriot entered the canal from the Red Sea and was approached by small motorboats that ply the waterway selling goods to passing ships, according to Egyptian and U.S. accounts.
The Navy has been leery of small boats since an explosives-packed motorboat killed 17 sailors aboard the destroyer Cole off Yemen in 2000.
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