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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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1 posted on 09/01/2004 4:55:47 PM PDT by yonif
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To: yonif
The attack killed 17 people, including three children, and wounded six, hospital officials and witnesses said.

Just don't let the cameras too close - they might capture the pre-existing bullet holes in those "innocent civilian's" heads.....

2 posted on 09/01/2004 4:57:09 PM PDT by TheBattman (http://www.swiftvets.com/)
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To: yonif

What do you call 17 dead Iraqi terrorists?


3 posted on 09/01/2004 4:57:17 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: yonif

Terrorists have kids, too.

If only they cared so much about other peoples kids!


4 posted on 09/01/2004 4:57:22 PM PDT by adam_az (Call your State GOP office and volunteer!)
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To: billorites

"What do you call 17 dead Iraqi terrorists?"

A good start.


5 posted on 09/01/2004 4:57:45 PM PDT by adam_az (Call your State GOP office and volunteer!)
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To: yonif

They should have planned a June wedding.


6 posted on 09/01/2004 4:58:14 PM PDT by Boss_Jim_Gettys (Bush/Cheney, the Official Candidates of the 2004 Olympic Summer Games)
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To: yonif
May Allah grant that Al-Zarqawi now has his virgins.

Allah Akbar!

7 posted on 09/01/2004 4:58:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: adam_az
Snort.

Guffaw.

8 posted on 09/01/2004 5:00:31 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: yonif

Was al-Zarqawi one of the dead? God I hope so!!!


9 posted on 09/01/2004 5:01:56 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: yonif

17 less scum in the world.


10 posted on 09/01/2004 5:05:07 PM PDT by jolie560
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To: shield

If he is, you know what the leftists will say about the timing of this.


11 posted on 09/01/2004 5:08:28 PM PDT by jwalburg (Hatriots for Kerry)
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To: jolie560

Video please.


12 posted on 09/01/2004 5:08:45 PM PDT by oneoftheothers
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To: yonif

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


13 posted on 09/01/2004 5:09:45 PM PDT by Lexington Green (It just ain't right to ask an American soldier to salute John Kerry.)
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To: yonif

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?


14 posted on 09/01/2004 5:12:15 PM PDT by bubman
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To: bubman

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.


15 posted on 09/01/2004 5:19:41 PM PDT by justin-garrett
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To: Made in USA

Oh man, what a shot. If only I were 30 years younger...!


17 posted on 09/01/2004 5:25:15 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: jwalburg
If he is, you know what the leftists will say about the timing of this.

Who gives a big fat $hit!!! Lots of the lefties believe he is only a bogey man...and died yrs ago!!!

18 posted on 09/01/2004 5:31:54 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: billorites

"What do you call 17 dead Iraqi terrorists?"

Horny?

(sorry to those easily offended, couldn't resist)


19 posted on 09/01/2004 5:36:46 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (What part of SHALL PASS NO LAW do they not understand?)
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To: yonif
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 terrorist anarchists.

Payback is a 6itch! :)

"Oh so you don't want our Marines!? Well here, have some bombs!!

20 posted on 09/01/2004 5:39:32 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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