Posted on 09/01/2004 4:55:45 PM PDT by yonif
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. airstrike late Wednesday targeted a suspected safehouse in Fallujah used by followers of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. officials said. The attack killed 17 people, including three children, and wounded six, hospital officials and witnesses said.
Witnesses said the strike hit a residence in the southern neighborhood of al-Jubail. People struggled to pull bodies from the rubble, while ambulances and civilian cars took the dead and wounded to the hospital.
U.S. forces have repeatedly carried out airstrikes in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, since Marines pulled back after a three-week siege of the city in April aimed at rooting out Sunni Muslim insurgents.
The U.S. military said in a statement that the latest strike used a precision-guided weapon to hit a safehouse used by al-Zarqawi's militants.
The strike, based on multiple Iraqi and coalition intelligence sources, targeted two buildings used as safehouses and meeting points for al-Zarqawi associates who had executed someone earlier Wednesday, the military said.
"The Zarqawi associates were observed removing a man from the trunk of a car, executing him then burying his body," the statement said.
Dr. Ahmed Hamid, at Fallujah General Hospital, said six adult civilians and three children had been brought in dead. An Associated Press reporter at the scene later saw eight more bodies removed from the wreckage.
Al-Zarqawi's followers have claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks across Iraq, including the beheadings of American businessman Nicholas Berg and South Korean translator Kim Sun-il.
Just don't let the cameras too close - they might capture the pre-existing bullet holes in those "innocent civilian's" heads.....
What do you call 17 dead Iraqi terrorists?
Terrorists have kids, too.
If only they cared so much about other peoples kids!
"What do you call 17 dead Iraqi terrorists?"
A good start.
They should have planned a June wedding.
Allah Akbar!
Guffaw.
Was al-Zarqawi one of the dead? God I hope so!!!
17 less scum in the world.
If he is, you know what the leftists will say about the timing of this.
Video please.
The attack killed 17 people, including three children, and wounded six, hospital officials and witnesses said.
... and puppies... many puppies were killed by evil US military
If children are killed so be it! $hit happens. I would bomb again and again and again and again...You must be relentless in your pursuit of your objective. In my moral humanistic side, I deplore the death of any person not directly involved with terror. But my rational mind tells me that a lot more children will die if we do not hold steadfast to free this world from this cancer. I will sleep well tonight.
WILL YOU?
Killing children is a tragady who ever they are, unless of course they are 12 year old jihadists bred to hate and kill Americans, those mothfudgers can die.
besides Al-Zarqwi is the one who is responsible for there death not America.
Oh man, what a shot. If only I were 30 years younger...!
Who gives a big fat $hit!!! Lots of the lefties believe he is only a bogey man...and died yrs ago!!!
"What do you call 17 dead Iraqi terrorists?"
Horny?
(sorry to those easily offended, couldn't resist)
Payback is a 6itch! :)
"Oh so you don't want our Marines!? Well here, have some bombs!!
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