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U.S. Airstrike in Fallujah Kills 17
ABC 7 ^ | September 01, 2004 | AP

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; enemy; fallujah; iraq; killed; waronterrorism
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
May Allah grant that Al-Zarqawi now has his virgins. Allah Akbar!

allah fubar

21 posted on 09/01/2004 6:18:34 PM PDT by lancer
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To: justin-garrett

In reply to:
"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."

Yep, the children are innocent and deserve a chance to live their lives and be able to make their own choices. It is the responsibility of the terrorist fanatics not to put innocents in proximity of themselves when fighting a war. Only they can spare the children from harm by putting distance between themselves and the young. Always a heartbreak to hear the loss of innocent victims.



22 posted on 09/01/2004 6:37:51 PM PDT by Mustng959 (In loving memory of those that gave their all to preserve our Freedoms!)
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To: lancer

17 is that all,bad day.


23 posted on 09/01/2004 6:40:07 PM PDT by jocko12
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To: yonif

I'm very suspicious of the timing of these killings.


24 posted on 09/01/2004 6:41:56 PM PDT by petercooper (Kerry passes up terror briefing: "They have offered to brief me. I just haven't had time.")
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To: jocko12

I've got a video of an F-16 strike in Fallujah, about a month ago, that took out a mob of at least 20 ragheads walking down a street. Pilot comments after strike: "Oh, dude!"


25 posted on 09/01/2004 7:10:16 PM PDT by lancer
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To: yonif

So what did Bush's war machine hit this time, a day care center, a battered womens' shelter or a nursing home?

</sarcasm>


26 posted on 09/01/2004 7:27:22 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC
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