I am offering this verbatim translation from the pro-American, pro-Saudi Arabic daily, Al-Hayat (Monday, Feb. 9, 2004): "An American patrol unit broke into a house in the Ash-Sha`b City, north of Baghdad the other day, looking for two kids, one is 7- the other is 9- years old. They both had aimed their plastic toy guns at American members of the unit while passing through the area. The father of the two kids told Al-Hayat that after a lengthy search that lasted for a whole hour around the house, the soldiers could not find the kids who had snuck out through the neighbor's house. US soldiers confiscated the toy guns and destroyed them. Witnesses reported a similar incident two weeks ago when American soldiers arrested a child after he aimed his plastic toy gun at them."