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Article: U.S. military says attack site near Syria was waystation for foreign fighters, not wedding party
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- May 24, 2004
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ANTHONY DEUTSCH, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
05-24-2004
Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
The U.S. military said Monday its photographs of rifles, machine guns, white powder and foreign passports support its case that it attacked a safehouse for foreign fighters _ not a wedding party _ near the Syrian border.
Iraqi survivors and police said up to 45 people died, and that the victims had been celebrating a wedding. Video that Associated Press Television News shot a day after the attack shows fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans, and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around a bombed out tent.
"At this point, we have seen really nothing that causes us to ...