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An Iraqi woman weeps next to the bodies of relatives who where killed during a US attack in Ishaqi. Controversy has broken out over a US air strike that killed around 20 Iraqis, with the military branding them "Al-Qaeda terrorists" while locals displayed the corpses of children.(AFP/Dia Hamid)
Iraqis search the rubble of a building that was destroyed in an air raid in a village near Thar Thar Lake in Salahuddin province northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006. U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, Friday in an attack targeting al-Qaida in Iraq militants, the U.S. command said. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)
Iraqis look at a body of a youth killed during an air raid in a village near Thar Thar Lake in Salahuddin province northwest of Baghdad, Friday, Dec. 8, 2006. U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, Friday in an attack targeting al-Qaida in Iraq militants, the U.S. command said. (AP Photo/Hameed Rasheed)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061208/ts_nm/iraq_dc_167"Iraqis, U.S. dispute deadly raid in new friction "
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The U.S. military said ground forces with air support killed 20 suspected al Qaeda militants, including two women, in an area where the Sunni Arab insurgency is strong.
Police and officials in Ishaqi, 90 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, said the bodies of 17 civilians, including six women and five children, were found in the rubble of two homes.
"The Americans have done this before but they always deny it," Ishaqi Mayor Amer Alwan told Reuters by telephone. "I want the world to know what's happening here."
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CHILDREN'S BODIES
Iraqiya state television on Friday said Iraq would hold a national reconciliation conference on December 16. It gave no details and it was not clear if Sunni Arab militant groups who oppose the political process would take part.
In Ishaqi, grieving relatives showed the bodies of five children wrapped in blankets to journalists. The houses were flattened in the raid.
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