WORLD PAPERS ON FALLUJA

There's not a lot of editorial reaction in today's world online press to the shootings in Falluja (link via Eric, who has some strong words for the US occupying force). The Tagesspiegel's story is "U.S. Soldiers Shoot into Crowd," and relies heavily on al-Jazeera's reporting. Le Monde's coverage is more first-hand and even less favorable toward the American version of events; it is probably the most in-depth account that I have seen so far, with quotes from some members of the military convoy involved in the shootings who tried to point out damage caused by gunfire from the crowd; Le Monde's reporters were unconvinced. El Moudjahid notes that a witness claimed that half of the dead were children; this is a detail I seem to have missed in other stories. Dawn leads its roundup of Iraq-related news with a spare account of the story. The Independent Online's story is more friendly toward the U.S. accounts of the incident. The Iran Daily (no permalinks) has a huge headline: "American Troops Kill 13 at Protest Rally" and also repeats the detail about the witness accounts of dead children.

MORE: In WaPo, Jefferson Morley has a good overview of world reactions.