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Article: More Iraqi grief: Iraqis say U.S. killed 45 in wedding party
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- 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 safe house for foreign fighters from Syria,
but Iraqis said the helicopter had attacked a wedding party.
Associated Press Television footage showed a truck containing
bloodied bodies, many wrapped in blankets, piled one atop the other.
Several were children.
Also Wednesday, the first court-martial stemming from abuse of
Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison was conducted in Baghdad.
Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits wept and apologized after receiving the
maximum penalty of a year in ...