"Conflicting reports over Iraq blast"

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"Conflicting reports over Iraq blast
Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:50 PM EST

By Dean Yates and Ibon Villelabeitia

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government and police said a bomb blast near a soccer field in the western city of Ramadi on Tuesday killed 18 people, mostly children, but the U.S. military said it was unaware of such an attack..."

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'...The U.S. military said its soldiers had carried out a controlled explosion in Ramadi, near a soccer field, that wounded 30 people, including nine children.

"I can't imagine there would be another attack involving children without our people knowing," said Major Jeff Pool, a spokesman for U.S. forces in western Anbar province. The wounded had cuts and bruises, he said..."

http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-02-27T225039Z_01_L27302354_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-COL.XML

[Ian David]

1. Was Cheney using the children as Human Shields? n/t

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Nobody seems to be asking why a "controlled blast" would injure 30 people

[FourScore]

3. Apparently,

it was more powerful than they thought it would be. The report says that the US usually sets off controlled demolitions when they are blowing up weapons caches.

[FourScore]

4. Americablog explains the wierdness of this

whole story quite well:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/