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Iraqis say US raid on home killed 11 family members |
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Iraqis say US raid on home killed 11 family members
By Amer Amery
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed
in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S.
military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al
Qaeda militant from a house.
Television pictures showed 11 bodies in the Tikrit morgue -- five
children, two men and four women. A freelance photographer later saw
the bodies being buried in Ishaqi, the town 100 km (60 miles) north of
Baghdad where the raid took place.
The U.S. military said in a statement its troops had attacked a house
in Ishaqi early on Wednesday to capture a "foreign fighter facilitator
for the al Qaeda in Iraq network".
"Troops were engaged by enemy fire as they approached the building,"
U.S. spokesman Major Tim Keefe said. "Coalition Forces returned fire
utilising both air and ground assets.
"There was one enemy killed. Two women and one child were also killed
in the firefight. The building ... (was) destroyed."
Keefe said the al Qaeda suspect had been captured and was being
questioned.
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Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the
roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants,
including the five children.
"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.
Another policeman, Major Farouq Hussein, said all the bodies had
gunshot wounds to the head.
Pictures of the house targeted in the raid showed it had been reduced
to rubble, while next to it lay the burnt-out wreckage of a truck.
Iraqi police said the U.S. military had asked for a meeting with local
tribal leaders.
Photographs of the funeral showed men weeping as five children were
wrapped in blankets and then lined up in a row next to freshly dug
graves.
Police in Salahaddin province, a heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency
and the home region of Saddam Hussein, have frequently criticised U.S.
military tactics in the area.
In January a U.S. air strike on a house in Baiji, further north, killed
several members of a family. In December U.S. fighter jets dropped two
500-pound bombs on a village, also in the region, killing 10 people.
The U.S. military said the people targeted had been suspected of
planting roadside bombs.
(Additional reporting by Ghazwan al-Jibouri in Tikrit and Aseel Kami in
Baghdad)
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17 Mar 2006 04:49:53 PM |
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wavesdancer posts:
"By Amer Amery
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed
in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S.
military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al
Qaeda militant from a house..."
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What is the real story?
Yesterday, it was two womens and 3 kids plus some terrorists shooting at
some troops. Now it wen t down a couple of kids.
Make up your mind(s)
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