USA says 13 insurgents killed in Iraq airstrike; locals say 45 civilians, women & children die

[Bluebear]

BAGHDAD, Iraq --A U.S. airstrike Thursday killed 13 insurgents in a volatile area west of Baghdad, the military said. Local officials said 45 civilians, including women and children, died in the attack.

American forces launched the attack after intelligence showed suspected insurgents were assembled in two safe houses for foreign fighters northeast of Amiriyah, 25 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.

Five militants were detained and a weapons cache including armor-piercing ammunition was found in an initial raid on a nearby target, the military said. That operation was followed by the airstrike on the two suspected safe houses in which the military said 13 insurgents died.

Police and hospital officials in the area offered a conflicting account, saying the airstrike hit the village of Zaidan south of Abu Ghraib and flattened four houses, killing 45 people, including women, children and old people.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/02/08/us_says_13_insurgents_killed_in_airstrike_west_of_baghdad_locals_say_45_civilians_die/

[upi402]

1. knee deep in quicksand and stomping our feet

because of it.

argh!

[Erika]

2. Oh, brown skinned Muslims dying

The right wing sites go for it big time. The more ragheads killed, the better. Get rid of those Islamofascists pigs. Per Coulter, Rushbo, Ingraham, Savage, Malkin, etc. Their president gives them the wink...wink.

[HappyWeasel]

3. ...at least we know why things are bad as they are. We can't just say this problem came like a theif

in the night.