Several killed in US strikes on Falluja

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/299E942A-9A0A-4E1F-B046-BF22E45A24FD.htm


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The second strike flattened a house in the al-Askari neighbourhood, killing at least four members of an Iraqi family and injuring an unknown number.

An Iraqi journalist told Aljazeera that the family was one of the few remaining in Falluja. Many have already fled the city because of continued US air strikes.

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The journalist refuted the claim that al-Zarqawi used to eat at the targeted restaurant and visit the now-dead Iraqi family.

Earlier, US troops fired on a car on the main highway between Falluja and Ramadi, killing five members of the same family travelling in the vehicle.

The dead included a woman and child.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/iraq_unrest_fallujah

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"Terrorists frequently planned operations from this location... The location had been under the terrorist organizations control for more than a year and innocent civilians knowingly stayed away."


The raid killed four people and wounded six, including employees of the restaurant, hospital sources told AFP.


The restaurant, located on the main road that divides Fallujah between north and south, was completely destroyed. Bulldozers were brought in to clear away debris in the hope of finding bodies.


Four hours later US aircraft struck the battle-scarred city, considered a hub for insurgents, a second time.



A destroyed home in Fallujah, where the US military has launched two air strikes, flattening two buildings which the military described as hideouts for Iraq (news - web sites)'s most wanted insurgent, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi(AFP/File/Fares Dlimi)

Anyone in that city is considered a terrorist, incl. women, infants, children.

Local residents try to extinguish a fire in the center of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), early morning, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004 following an US air strike. A US warplane early Tuesday destroyed a popular restaurant which the U.S. command said was a meeting place for members of Iraq's most feared terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

military into Falluja. The consequences would be all out Jihad. So I guess they figure they'll kill them all instead. Then there won't be any city to go into.

Bad, bad things are going to come from this.

A future Pentagon spokesman - "The city was a known hideout of al-Zarqawi, so it had to be destroyed. Unfortunately, he got away, but we have it on good intelligence that he is now in Sammara."

as long as they don't bring it here on our land. Better over there than here.--a Bush supporter

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