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Massacre through bombing of Iraqi home
ISAHAQI, Iraq, March 15.—At least
11 people, most of them women and children, died on
Wednesday when a home north of Baghdad was bombed by
the U.S. forces, according to the police and
relatives of the victims, as AP reports.
The U.S. military forces
acknowledged four deaths – one man, two women and
one child – in an operation that allowed, they said,
the capture of an alleged rebel in the rural area of
Isahaqi, some 80 kilometers north of the capital.
The victims, some of them
shrouded in sheets, were taken in the back of a
truck to Tikrit General Hospital, 72 kilometers
north, according to their families.
Photos taken by the AP showed the
arrival of the bodies of two men, five children and
another four covered corpses at the hospital along
with devastated relatives.
Riyadh Majid, who identified
himself as the nephew of the deceased head of the
family, Faez Khalaf, told AP in the hospital that
U.S. forces landed in helicopters and attacked their
home in the early hours of Wednesday.
Khalef’s brother, Ahmed, affirmed
that nine of the victims were relatives who lived in
the house and the other two were visitors whom he
did not identify.
Police Captain Laith Mohamed,
based in the nearby city of Samarra, stated that
U.S. combat aircraft and an armored vehicle took
part in the attack in which 11 people died.
SADDAM HUSSEIN TRIAL
Meanwhile, the trial is
continuing in Baghdad of Saddam Hussein, the deposed
president, who blamed the United States for the
violence ruling in that occupied country. Hussein
demanded the withdrawal of the foreign troops and
affirmed that he is still the head of state.
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