US air raid kills women and children: Iraqi officials

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=focusoniraq&xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/September/focusoniraq_September196.xml

28 September 2007

BAGHDAD - US forces carried out an air strike early on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including women and children, in a building in a mainly Sunni area of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.

The reported attack came as the US military announced an inquiry into a separate incident in which the bodies of five women and four children had been found in a central village raided by American soldiers looking for Al-Qaeda insurgents earlier in the week.

Friday’s air raid targeted a building in the Al-Saha neighbourhood in southwestern Baghdad where families were sleeping, the Iraqi officials said.

Bodies were pulled out of the rubble of the building, which was destroyed.

“Ten people were killed and seven wounded when American helicopters attacked Building No 139 at 2.00 am. We have no idea of the reason for the attack,” said an interior ministry official.

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1. Why are we attacking civilians? This is just wrong!