In other Iraq news, thousands of people demonstrated in Najaf Wednesday against the U.S. military’s killing of a top deputy to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The deputy, Sahib al-Amiri, was shot dead in an early morning raid. The Pentagon says Amiri was responsible for scores of bombings against U.S. and Iraqi forces. But aides said al-Amiri ran an educational organization for orphans and impoverished children and was never involved in illegal activity. Amiri’s 19-year-old son Karrar said he found his father dead on the roof of their home with four gunshot wounds.