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U.S. convoy's driving questioned in wreck that kills Iraqi civilians
Dazed and blood-spattered, Badriya Hussein whispered prayers Wednesday over the blanket-covered bodies of her relatives on a highway south of Baghdad, where a U.S. military convoy that was traveling in the wrong lane had hit a passenger van.
She looked at the stricken American soldiers standing nearby.
"Why?" she asked. "Why?"
Minutes after the crash, the 18-ton armored personnel carrier - a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle - that struck the van was on its side, smoldering and with one side partially sheared off. The van was a mangled, bloody pile of wreckage with debris strewn for yards in every direction.