World War III **NEWS** May 20th, 2004..........U.S. forces strike Wedding........


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World War III **NEWS** May 20th, 2004..........U.S. forces strike
Wedding
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www.reuters.com
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U.S. forces killed dozens of people in Iraq's western desert, the army
said on Thursday, but reports the victims were civilians at a wedding
sparked outrage as Washington struggled to contain a prisoner abuse
scandal.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the
U.S. military in Iraq, told Reuters the attack early on Wednesday
targeted "a suspected foreign fighter safe house," 16 miles east of
the Syrian border.
But Dubai-based Al Arabiya television, quoting eyewitnesses, said the
raid on the village of Makr al-Deeb had hit wedding guests and had
killed at least 41 civilians.
It quoted a villager denying there had been any celebratory gunfire, a
tradition that has caused fatal misunderstandings before in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
"At 0300 (1900 EDT Tuesday) we conducted an operation...against
suspected foreign fighters in a safe house," Kimmitt said. "We took
ground fire and we returned fire."
Asked about reports of dozens killed, he said: "We are not disputing
the numbers you are hearing. We estimate that around 40 were killed.
But we operated within our rules of engagement."
Washington says the unending violence in Iraq will not delay its
handing sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30, but analysts say the
handover will not stop Iraq dominating debate during the run-up to
November's presidential election.
President Bush said an interim Iraqi president, prime minister and
other top ministers should be selected in the next two weeks. He plans
to lay out a detailed plan this week for the handover he called "full
transfer of sovereignty."
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a close ally under pressure
at home to withdraw his troops, came seeking assurances from Bush that
Iraqis would take over their own affairs. U.S. officials said security
forces would remain under U.S. command.
U.S. General John Abizaid, who oversees military operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan, predicted a surge in violence after June 30 and
leading up to Iraqi polls at the end of the year.
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