US Army kills three family members in Iraq raid

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http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/244220/US_Army_kills_three_family_members_in_Iraq_raid

(DPA)

31 October 2007

BAGHDAD - Five people were killed and four injured in a wave of violence in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday - three of them from the same family shot dead in a US raid, according to police and hospital sources.

Three people from the same family were shot dead in a US Army raid on homes in the district of Wasiti in Kirkuk, 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, the sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

In a separate attack, a member of a tribal council involved in a crackdown against Al Qaeda was killed and three others were injured when gunmen opened fire on their car on the Kirkuk-Mosul road.

Meanwhile, the chief judge of the Kirkuk appeals court, Zahir al- Bayati, survived an assassination attempt, the sources said.

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1. If the exact same thing happened but it involved Blackwater

a frothing, hyper righteous lynch mob would be storming this thread like gangbusters.

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2. Do you have additional information on this incident?

The three people were from the same family but those are the only facts given.