Blood of women and children stains Iraq's Eid

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Source: afp



Blood of women and children stains Iraq's Eid

by Andrew Gully 2 hours, 16 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi civilians bore the brunt Friday of a bloody start to Eid al-Fitr, as a US air raid killed 15 women and children, and a sinister suicide attack on a playground shocked a northern town.


There were angry statements from Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and from an influential Sunni clerics' association after the US strike, which also killed 19 insurgents.

In a rare admission that it had taken civilian lives, the US military said it regretted the deaths of the women and children and had launched an investigation after the operation northwest of Baghdad on Thursday evening.

Further north in Tuz, near the oil city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber on Friday exploded a cart of sweets in a crowded playground, killing a child, a father and wounding 20 children, officials said.

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[subsuelo]

1. all this for oil

[roxnev]

2. The blood is on

G.W. Bush hand, no one else!

[Purveyor]

3. Makes me sick to my stomach. How the hell did we, the people, allow this to happen? K&R eom

[babylonsister]

4. The word 'Regret' has been cheapened when it happens so often. nt