The Russian (diplomats) are coming! American forces reportedly shoot at Ruskies as they flee the embassy in Iraq. The below report is the only one I could find that mentions the M16 bullets (a fact Yahoo Taiwan news also reported)
The Hindu : `Attack was deliberate'By Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW APRIL 7. The Russian Ambassador to Iraq has accused the U.S. troops of firing at a Russian convoy evacuating 23 embassy personnel and journalists from Baghdad to Syria on Sunday. Five people were injured in the incident, one of them seriously.
The Ambassador, Vladimir Titorenko, who suffered a minor injury in the arm, said the U.S. forces `deliberately' opened fire at the Russian cars despite the fact that they had diplomatic licence plates and carried the Russian flag.
Experts found three bullet holes in the envoy's car and recovered two M16 bullets.The RIA Novosti news agency quoted the Russian envoy as saying that his driver had been seriously injured in the abdomen and operated upon by Iraqi doctors in Al-Fallujah, a town some 50 km from Baghdad.