`They didn't even spare one child' (a flashback from a couple months ago)

[Aidoneus]

May 21, 2004. 01:00 AM
`They didn't even spare one child'
Air strike kills families in their beds
U.S. maintains target was hideout
SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI
ASSOCIATED PRESS

RAMADI, Iraq—As survivors tell it, the wedding party was in full swing. The band was playing tribal music and the guests had just finished eating dinner when, at about 9 p.m., they heard the roar of U.S. warplanes.

Fearing trouble, the revellers ended the festivities and went to bed. About six hours later, the first bomb struck.

"Mothers died with their children in their arms," said Madhi Nawaf, who survived the attack Wednesday in Makr al-Deeb on the Syrian border. Up to 45 people died, mostly women and children from the Bou Fahad tribe. "One of them was my daughter," Nawaf said. "I found her a few steps from the house, her two-year-old son Raad in her arms. Her one-year-old son, Raed, was lying nearby, missing his head."

In Baghdad, Brig.-Gen. Mark Kimmitt, coalition deputy chief of operations, said yesterday the U.S. military would investigate after Iraqi officials reported the survivors' story. But he said the military maintained the target was a safe house for infiltrators slipping across the border to fight coalition soldiers in Iraq.

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"... Let's not be naïve ... Bad things happen in wars. I don't have to apologize for the conduct of my men."...

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Some of the obviously foreign terrorist operatives taken out in this heroic liberation mission can be seen this location.