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Article: Attacked house held wedding party, Iraqis say
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- May 20, 2004
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A U.S. aircraft fired on a house in the desert
near the Syrian border Wednesday, and Iraqi officials said more than
40 people were killed, including children. The U.S. military said the
target was a suspected safehouse for foreign fighters from Syria, but
Iraqis said a helicopter had attacked a wedding party.
Associated Press Television News footage showed a truck containing
bloodied bodies, many wrapped in blankets, piled one atop the other.
Several were children.
The attack happened in a desert region near the border with Syria
and Jordan, according to Lt. Col. Ziyad al-Jbouri, deputy police
chief of Ramadi, the provincial capital about 250 miles to the east.
He ...