Iraq's UN ambassador has accused US marines of killing his relative in cold blood during a recent house raid near the western town of Haditha.
Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie, a supporter of the United States, said Mohammed al-Sumaidaie, the 21-year old son of his first cousin, was shot by marines during a raid at his father's house in the village of Al-Shaikh Hadid, near a US military base at the Haditha Dam on Friday.
"All indications point to a killing of an unarmed innocent civilian - a cold-blooded murder," said Sumaidaie, a Sunni.
"The marines were smiling at each other as they were leaving," he quoted the mother of the young man as saying.
