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US army massacres over
100 civilians in Iraq
BAGHDAD, October 1 (PL).—, More than 100 Iraqi
civilians have been killed and some 200 injured in
Samarra and Sadr City today during the cruelest
retaliatory operations that the US occupation forces
have launched do date.
According to medical sources quoted by the Arab TV
network Al Arabiya, 94 people died and another 180
were injured when soldiers from the US 1st Infantry
Division attacked a civilian area of the city of
Samarra with heavy weaponry.
In
the Sadr City district, located in west Baghdad, US
soldiers massacred nine civilians during an
operation to eliminate militia forces loyal to the
wanted Islamic Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr.
Another three people were seriously injured.
Al
Arabiya also reported that the national police,
under the orders of the United States, arrested 21
foreigners and 42 Iraqis in the vicinity of Haifa, a
central capital street.
This
Friday’s wave of arrests was the third after this
week’s confiscation of two rebel arsenals.
Sunni insurgents have organized several actions in
the last few days against patrols by the occupying
forces and their national allies.
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