Iraqis Protest Civilian Deaths

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/world/middleeast/20iraq.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Iraqis protested the deaths of at least seven people during an American raid and air strike on Friday in the northern town where Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003.

Americans say the raid succeeded in killing its target, a senior operative of Al Qaeda in Iraq who had been suspected of involvement in bombing attacks along the Tigris River Valley.

But Iraqi officials said the strike had used excessive force in killing eight members of one family, who the officials said were innocent. They accused the Americans of shooting down men and women from the air as they fled. The Americans said seven people had been killed.

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Abdullah Hussein Jibara, the deputy governor of Salahuddin Province said that he did not accept the initial explanations offered by the Americans to the Iraqi police in Ad Dwar and that they should have carried out more checks before the bombing.

how many families, woman and children and Innocent.

what the US have achieved during this so called liberation, is liberate the Iraq's from their bodies.

I think the NYT is underestimating the deaths just a bit.:cry: