Leave it to AP to use the civillian casuatly angle without any context of the engagement. If they reported like this during WWII, then you would have thought that the civilian population for the entire eupropean continent had been killed without any military casualties
Residents search for bodies in the rubble of houses destroyed during clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, February 22, 2007. Residents in Ramadi said three buildings were destroyed in the clashes. A civil defence official and an ambulance driver, both of whom declined to be identified, said as many as 26 people were killed, including some women and children. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ)