U.S. jets pound insurgent-held cities in Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. jets pound insurgent-held cities in Iraq
Dozens reported killed in Fallujah and Tal AfarThe Associated Press

Updated: 5:27 a.m. ET Sept. 9, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets on Thursday pounded the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and a northern town astride a major smuggling route, killing dozens of people in the two attacks, officials and witnesses said.

Warplanes hammered Tal Afar, a northern city near the border with Syria suspected of lying on smuggling route. The operations are intended to return the city 30 miles west of Mosul to control of the interim Iraqi government.

The military said initial reports put the number of insurgents dead at 57. At least a dozen civilians were also killed in the attack, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.

American warplanes fired missiles on a building used by associates of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the third day of strikes in Fallujah, a hotbed of Sunni Muslim insurgents bent on driving coalition forces from the country. At least five were killed, including a woman and a child, said Dr. Ahmad Thair of the Fallujah General Hospital.
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5949556/

[David__77]

1. This is the kind of lie that woke me up politically.

I remember the outright lies about the invasion of Panama were so blatant in the media, that I realized that it was all propaganda, as is all news--there is no "objectivity." "57 insurgents" the media dutifully repeats. This is a crime. The sons and brothers and mothers of the dead will damn those responsible for these deaths--and who can blame them?

[leftchick]

2. Is he an "insurgent"?

Doctors try to revive baby Abdul Khalil after he sustained fatal injuries during an air raid in Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004. American warplanes fired missiles on a building used by an al-Qaida-linked militant group in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah early Thursday, the U.S. military said.The military said intelligence showed that three associates of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were in the area when jets unleashed a precision strike. Dr. Ahmad Thair of the Fallujah General Hospital said five people were killed, including two women and a child, and nine others injured in the strike. The U.S. military had no information about casualties. (AP Photo / Abdul Khader Sadi)

:grr:

[Swamp Rat]

4. no words

:cry:

[Scurrilous]

3. US bombing kills more Falluja civilians

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/59DA8B7D-306A-4A62-9213-373E227B4F94.htm

US air strikes have killed at least 12 Iraqi civilians in the town of Falluja in a third successive night of bombing.

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"Speaking from the town's main hospital on Thursday, Dr Mushtaq Talib said three women and five children were killed and another 15 were injured.
The victims, from just three families, were taking shelter in a couple of houses that were completely destroyed during the third successive night of air strikes, locals said."

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"Khalid Abbas, a neighbour to one of the houses completely destroyed, told journalists: "We were sleeping on the roof because the electricity keeps going off at night. When the the explosion went off, the blast threw me back by at least five metres.

"First I thought the explosion was in my house but when I awoke from the shock I saw that the neighbours had been hit." Abbas said two women and 10 children had lived in the house next door.

"All the children next door used to fill the streets with noise. Today I hope they will be like birds in heaven," Abbas said. "I want to know why the Americans decided to bomb a family with children."

[jukes]

5. the horror...

:cry: