Conscripts shoot their own officers rather than fight From Tom Newton Dunn with 40 Commando near al-Faw, southern Iraq IRAQI conscripts shot their own officers in the chest yesterday to avoid a fruitless fight over the oil terminals at al-Faw. British soldiers from 40 Commandoâs Charlie Company found a bunker full of the dead officers, with spent shells from an AK47 rifle around them. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-619488,00.html "Chemical Ali" believed dead, witnesses report Saddam on a stretcher after air strike. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Primetime/iraq_main030321.html