U.S. soldiers opened fire on a festive wedding parade in Samarra, a town north of Baghdad, earlier this week. Medical officials and survivors told Knight Ridder newspapers three teenagers were killed and seven others injured. The troops fired upon the party after celebrants fired their guns in the air. But 17-year-old Abdul Salam Jassim said U.S. soldiers didn’t open fire until several minutes after the celebratory shooting had occurred. Jassim’s colon has been destroyed by the shooting. Twelve-year-old Mohammad Ahmed has gunshot wounds to his abdomen, thighs and scrotum. Right after the shooting, armed U.S. soldiers walked into the hospital asking for the names of the wounded. Many of the people in the hospital were so terrified, they fled. Meanwhile, in the same town of Samarra, the U.S. military has admitted U.S. troops killed two Iraqi civilians and injured two others after their vehicle failed to stop at a checkpoint.