Excite News: "Iraq Desert Bombing Video Shows Carnage | May 21, 8:29 PM (ET) | By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Fragments of musical instruments, tufts of women's hair, and a large blood stain are among the scenes in Associated Press Television News film of a destroyed house that survivors say U.S. planes bombed during a wedding party.
It is the first known footage from the site of Wednesday's attack, which killed up to 45 people, mostly women and children from the Bou Fahad tribe in Mogr el-Deeb, a desert village on the Syrian border.
The U.S. military has said the target was a suspected safehouse for foreign fighters from Syria and denied Friday that children were killed in the airstrikes.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt told reporters in Baghdad that U.S. troops who reported back from the operation "told us they did not shoot women and children."
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But an Associated Press reporter in the Ramadi area, at least 275 miles east of Mogr el-Deeb, was able to identify at least 10 of the bodies as those of children.
At the Bou Fahad cemetery outside Ramadi, where the tribe is based, each of the 28 fresh graves contain one to three corpses, mostly of mothers and their young children.
Relatives said they include those of 2-year-old Kholood and 1-year-old Anoud, daughters of Amal Rikad, who was killed; of 2-year-old Raad and 1-year-old Ra'ed - whose headless body was found near his house - sons of Fatima Madhi, who was killed; of Saad, 10, Faisal, 7, Anoud, 6, Fasila, 5, Kholood, 4, and Inad, 3 - children of Mohammed and Morifa Rikad, who were killed.
There also are photo images of dead children, but it was not possible to determine if those victims were already accounted for by relatives.
In Washington, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers told Congress that "we feel at this point very confident that this was a legitimate target, probably foreign fighters" who may have ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian wanted for allegedly organizing attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq on behalf of al-Qaida.
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Smuggling livestock into Syria is also part of a herdsman's life, although no one in the tribe acknowledged that.
Weddings are often marked in Iraq with celebratory gunfire, but survivors insisted no weapons were fired Wednesday - despite speculation by Iraqi officials that this drew a mistaken American attack.
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"What we saw in those APTN videos were substantially inconsistent with the reports we received from the unit that conducted the operation," Kimmitt said. "We're now trying to figure out why there's an inconsistency.
Friday, May 21, 2004
Karbala: AC-130 Gunships: 18 Iraqi dead, [incl 2 pilgrims?], 13 wounded
Excite News: "18 Killed in Heavy Fighting in Karbala | May 21, 8:28 AM (ET) | By FISNIK ABRASHI
KARBALA, Iraq (AP) - American AC-130 gunships and tanks pounded militia positions early Friday near two shrines in the center of the holy city of Karbala, and the U.S. military said it killed 18 fighters loyal to a rebel cleric. Hospital officials said the dead included two Iranian pilgrims.
KARBALA, Iraq (AP) - American AC-130 gunships and tanks pounded militia positions early Friday near two shrines in the center of the holy city of Karbala, and the U.S. military said it killed 18 fighters loyal to a rebel cleric. Hospital officials said the dead included two Iranian pilgrims.
Monday, May 17, 2004
Coalition casualties to date: 783 U.S., 58 British, Italy-18; Spain-8; Bulgaria-6; Ukraine-4; Poland-3, Thailand-2, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia Ne
Modbee.com | The Modesto Bee: "List of coalition casualties | Five G.I.s fall as U.S. battles Shiites in Iraq | The Associated Press | Last Updated: May 17, 2004, 08:15:27 PM PDT
(AP) - The names of coalition casualties, provided by relatives or military officials. As of Monday, May 17, 783 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.
The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three;
Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.
The list will be updated as information becomes available from the Associated Press."
(AP) - The names of coalition casualties, provided by relatives or military officials. As of Monday, May 17, 783 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.
The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three;
Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.
The list will be updated as information becomes available from the Associated Press."
Baghdad, near Green Zone: suicide car bomb: HEAD of GOVERNING COUNCIL killed 3-6 more
News: "Head of Governing Council killed in Baghdad bombing | By Christopher Torchia, AP | 17 May 2004
The head of Iraq's Governing Council was killed today in a suicide car bombing near a US checkpoint in central Baghdad - a major blow to coalition efforts to stabilize Iraq ahead of a handover of sovereignty on 30 June.
Abdel-Zahraa Othman, also known as Izzadine Saleem, was the second and highest-ranking member of the US-appointed council assassinated so far. He was among four Iraqis killed in the blast, according to Redha Jawad Taki, a member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite Muslim organization. "
The head of Iraq's Governing Council was killed today in a suicide car bombing near a US checkpoint in central Baghdad - a major blow to coalition efforts to stabilize Iraq ahead of a handover of sovereignty on 30 June.
Abdel-Zahraa Othman, also known as Izzadine Saleem, was the second and highest-ranking member of the US-appointed council assassinated so far. He was among four Iraqis killed in the blast, according to Redha Jawad Taki, a member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite Muslim organization. "
Green Zone: suicide car bomb 6 Iraqi dead including Head of GOVERNING COUNCIL
Excite - News: "Suicide Car Bomb Kills Iraq Governing Council Chief | May 17, 5:33 am ET | By Joseph Logan and Khaled Yacoub Oweis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb killed the head of Iraq's Governing Council Monday, dealing a major blow to the U.S. coalition battling a Shi'ite insurgency and a growing prisoner abuse scandal.
Abdul Zahra Othman Mohammad, a Shi'ite Muslim also known as Izzedin Salim, was in the last car of a Governing Council convoy waiting at a checkpoint to enter the 'Green Zone' coalition headquarters in central Baghdad when the car bomb exploded.
The attack underlined the vulnerability of the Baghdad administration just six weeks before the U.S.-led occupiers are set to hand over sovereignty to Iraqis, though officials insisted violence would not derail the political process.
At least six people were killed as the blast tore through the crush of cars and pedestrians waiting to get into the heavily guarded compound of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, blowing bodies apart and melting the asphalt.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb killed the head of Iraq's Governing Council Monday, dealing a major blow to the U.S. coalition battling a Shi'ite insurgency and a growing prisoner abuse scandal.
Abdul Zahra Othman Mohammad, a Shi'ite Muslim also known as Izzedin Salim, was in the last car of a Governing Council convoy waiting at a checkpoint to enter the 'Green Zone' coalition headquarters in central Baghdad when the car bomb exploded.
The attack underlined the vulnerability of the Baghdad administration just six weeks before the U.S.-led occupiers are set to hand over sovereignty to Iraqis, though officials insisted violence would not derail the political process.
At least six people were killed as the blast tore through the crush of cars and pedestrians waiting to get into the heavily guarded compound of Saddam Hussein's former palaces, blowing bodies apart and melting the asphalt.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Iraq: American civilian beheaded: vowed more killings in revenge for the 'Satanic degradation' of Iraqi prisoners buy US
Excite - News: "Qaeda Leader Beheads U.S. Civilian in Iraq -Web Site | May 11, 6:09 pm ET | By Ghaida Ghantous
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the 'Satanic degradation' of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday.
A poor quality videotape on the site showed a man dressed in orange overalls sitting bound on a white plastic chair in a bare room, then knelt on the floor with five masked men behind him.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the 'Satanic degradation' of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday.
A poor quality videotape on the site showed a man dressed in orange overalls sitting bound on a white plastic chair in a bare room, then knelt on the floor with five masked men behind him.
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