U.S. air strikes kill 10 in Baghdad (74 wounded)

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, April 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday it had killed 10 fighters in helicopter missile strikes and ground battles in eastern Baghdad overnight.

Sources at two hospitals in Baghdad's Sadr City slum said they had received the bodies of 11 people killed in air strikes, all men. Another 74 people, including nine women and 12 children, were wounded, the hospital sources said.

In a statement, the U.S. military said soldiers had killed three fighters who attacked them with mortars. Two helicopter strikes against militants planting roadside bombs killed six, and a third strike killed one.

Eastern Baghdad's Sadr City slum and surrounding areas have seen fighting between Shi'ite militia and U.S. and Iraqi forces for the past month since Iraq's government launched a crackdown on militia loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25168637.htm

[annabanana]

1. I thought they "had no plans" to attack Sadr City....

At least that's what they said YESTERDAY

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080424/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestussadrcity

[InkAddict]

6. But, they said the AF wasn't doing enough (killing enough)? n/t

[Barrett808]

7. The US has no plans to "besiege" Sadr City...

...but leveling it is probably "on the table".

[bdamomma]

2. ethic cleansing goes on for bush and cheney greedy and murderous agenda

[annabanana]

3. kick. . . . . .n/t

[leftchick]

4. More War Crimes!

Still bombing civilians in our name. Go USA! :puke:



An Iraqi boy looks at the remain of a US military rocket in Baghdad's Sadr City. Iraq's hardline Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called upon his followers and security forces to stop the bloodshed a week after he warned of "open war" against the government.
(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)




Iraqi children look at a wrecked car in Baghdad's Sadr City which was struck by US missiles during fierce fighting with al-Mahdi army militia overnight, April 20. Sadr's latest call came as fierce clashes in Sadr City -- bastion of his Mahdi Army -- killed 11 people and wounded 32 overnight, a local medic said.
(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

[xchrom]

5. as long as we kill children in this 'attempt' to quell violence

in sadr city -- then we will win no friends.