Blast destroys house in Falluja, 20 Iraqis killed

Oops, we meant to just kill the one guy. Sorry!

or perhaps the US just wants to kill more Iraqi civilians....

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It is much easier for bushco* to blame every bad thing that happens in Iraq on a purported "terrorist". Then Iraq becomes the "front in the war on terra". If not Al-Zarqawi, who they reported dead some time ago, then some other bogey man will do. The reality is most of the bad things happening in Iraq are directly related to unhappy Iraqis, who are forming a formidable resistance to the US occupiers.

Of course the murikans will believe what their tv tells them so....

simultaneously and he may be able to rise from the dead in addition to growing limbs.

Therefore, "U.S. officials" assert bombing residential areas, although technically a war crime, is justified by these suspicions.

<Kill one person - it's murder; kill thousands - it's foreign policy!>

was caused by the US military

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4222345,00.html

U.S. Missiles Kill 20 Fallujah Residents


Saturday June 19, 2004 1:46 PM


By TAREK EL-TABLAWY

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. military plane fired missiles Saturday into a residential neighborhood in Fallujah, killing at least 20 people and leveling houses in the restive Sunni Muslim city, police and residents said.

It was the first significant U.S. military action in the city since Marines ended a bloody three-week siege against insurgents. Since the U.S. forces left, residents have said that extremist influence in the city, west of Baghdad, has only grown.

U.S. Marines declined comment and referred queries to the U.S. command, which said it had no comment.

Elsewhere, U.S. troops battled insurgents for a fourth day near the city of Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, in fighting that has killed at least six Iraqis and one American soldier, the U.S. military and witnesses said. In southern Iraq, a roadside bomb killed at least two people, including a Portuguese security officer.

In the Fallujah strike, at least two houses were destroyed and six others were damaged in the poor neighborhood.

At least 20 bodies were counted, and they were taken for burial immediately at the city's ``martyrs' cemetery in accordance with Islamic custom of burying the dead quickly. At least three women and five children were among the dead.

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5014973

U.S. air strike kills 22 in Iraq

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. plane has fired missiles at a house in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja, killing 22 Iraqis, witnesses and hospital officials say.

They said the victims were crushed under the rubble after two missile strikes demolished the house on Saturday morning.

Relatives brought 22 bodies for burial at a cemetery after the blast. The U.S. military had no immediate information.

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I guess we just "won" some more "hearts and minds".

:cry:

to toss out before they do comment.

"U.S. Marines declined comment and referred queries to the U.S. command, which said it had no comment."

The Busholinis and their appointees are further inciting hatred and anti-Americanism. Obviously, they want to create the conditions for their "final battle". What other conclusion is one to draw from their actions?

"The number of casualties is so high because after the first missile we jumped to rescue the victims," said Wissam Ali Hamad. "The second missile killed those trying to carry out the rescue."

"They brought us 22 corpses, children, women and youth," said cemetery worker Ahmed Hassan.


A U.S. plane fired missiles at a house in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on June 19, 2004, killing 22 Iraqis, witnesses and hospital officials said. They said the victims were crushed under the rubble after two missile strikes demolished the house. (Reuters Graphic)


Residents of a Fallujah, Iraq neighborhood comb through the wreckage of their homes which were destroyed in a U.S. airstrike Saturday June 19, 2004. A U.S. military plane fired missiles killing at least 20 and leveling houses in the restive Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, police and residents said. The U.S. military declined comment. (AP Photo/Abdul-Kadr Saadi)


Residents of a Fallujah, Iraq neighborhood walk through the wreckage of their homes which were destroyed in a U.S. airstrike Saturday June 19, 2004. A U.S. military plane fired missiles killing at least 20 and leveling houses in the restive Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, police and residents said. The U.S. military declined comment. (AP Photo/Abdul-Kadr Saadi)


Residents of a Fallujah, Iraq neighborhood walk through the wreckage of their homes which were destroyed in a U.S. airstrike Saturday June 19, 2004. A U.S. military plane fired missiles killing at least 20 and leveling houses in the restive Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, police and residents said. The U.S. military declined comment. (AP Photo/Abdul-Kadr Saadi)


A residents of a Fallujah, Iraq neighborhood sifts through the wreckage of his home which were destroyed in a U.S. airstrike Saturday June 19, 2004. A U.S. military plane fired missiles killing at least 20 and leveling houses in the restive Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, police and residents said. The U.S. military declined comment. (AP Photo/Abdul-Kadr Saadi)

Outraged residents accused the Americans of trying to inflict maximum damaged by firing two strikes — one first to attack and another to kill the rescuers.


After Saturday's attack, a man sat on the floor weeping as someone asked him how many members of his family were killed.


"I don't know. Maybe 10," he said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/10BAF2F2-8DAA-48C5-8F39-7A58080F0B32.htm

<snip>
Relatives brought 22 bodies for burial at a cemetery after the blast.

Aljazeera's correspondent in Baghdad, Abd Al-Adhim Muhamad, said several Falluja residents told him by phone that US warplanes had hovered over the city and eventually fired two missiles.

A Falluja resident told AFP that US planes bombed a residential area.

"An American plane fired at about 10:30 am (0630 GMT) on our houses," said a resident of the Jbail district of the city.

They said casualties were pulled from the rubble of four houses and taken to hospital.

A US military source would not to comment on the report.

As for restive, an elder stated that security in
Fallujah had never been better.

I've read that Adhamiya, a Sunni suburb of Baghdad,
wil be the next Fallujah.

And there will never be peace for Americans.

I'd planned to post a similar comment but as usual I'd been beaten to it. :) Great minds you know. :)

Two U.S. soldiers were seriously wounded when their
patrol was attacked near Baquba overnight, 24 hours after
troops killed Iraqis armed with rocket-propelled grenades in
the same area.

Seriously wounded I read as KIA.

Fighting in 4th day in Baquba.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5462490&pageNumber=1

BRING IT ON !!

BE FREE OR DIE IRAQI PIGS !!!!

:kick:

High-profile air strikes 'killed only civilians'
Dan Glaister
Monday June 14, 2004
The Guardian


The American military launched some 50 air strikes designed to kill specific targets during the Iraq war, it emerged yesterday, but none of them found its mark.

Instead the air strikes had a high civilian toll, according to military officials serving at the time.

Until now only a few of the air strikes, such as the use of four 2,000lb "bunker-buster" bombs in an attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at a farm in Masur on March 19, had been made public.

That air strike, which caused the starting date of the war to be brought forward, has been the subject of speculation, with analysts doubting the reliability of the intelligence used and questioning whether Saddam was at the compound.

According to the New York Times, a report prepared in December by the pressure group Human Rights Watch, said the decision to go for high-profile strikes against individual Iraqi leaders had "resulted in dozens of civilian casualties that the US could have prevented if it had taken additional precautions".

A US air force report prepared in April last year also confirms that there were 50 such air strikes, while another report, by the Defence Intelligence Agency last month confirms that all the targets were from the 55-strong list of Iraqi leaders depicted on playing cards distributed to US forces in Iraq.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1238021,00.html

http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=32498

Baghdad, Iraq - U-S officials say an airstrike in Fallujah targeted a known hideout of a militant Iraqi group.

Residents and police say a military jet hit a residential neighborhood
with two missiles, killing at least 16 people.

Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt says the attack hit a hideout of Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network.

Kimmitt says the blast caused ``multiple secondary explosions'' of
ammunition and roadside bomb materials.

U-S sources say they believe several militants were in the house at
the time of the attack -- but they don't know if al-Zarqawi himself was there.

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Ah, there's that Kimmitt guy again! He's the one that advised everyone that if they didn't like seeing women and children killed, they just needed to "change the channel".