Military vigourously denies reports of civilian deaths from air strikes

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US air strikes hit Iraqi rebel city, military denies civilian casualties

http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041020175812.8ghyivdc.html

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) Oct 20, 2004
The US military unleashed four air strikes on the rebel-controlled city of Fallujah on Wednesday, destroying buildings said to belong to top Islamic militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi and other rebel posts.

The military vigourously denied reports from the rebel-held enclave that the bombardments had destroyed a teachers' college and killed a family of six.

>>>>The military challenged reports of civilian casualties emerging from the city and blamed the accounts on a "known Zarqawi propagandist ... passing false reports to the media".

"Multi-national force-Iraq ... said today that media reports based on witnesses stating US aircraft struck a Female Teachers' Preparation Institute are not true. Another report stating a family of six was killed in a US raid in Fallujah is also not true."
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World Of Reality:

An Iraqi carries the body of a child who was dug out from under the rubble in Fallujah. US warplanes struck targets in the rebel-held city, while Iraq suffered a fresh blow with international aid group CARE halting operations after the kidnapping of a top relief worker.(AFP/Fares Dlimi) AFP - Oct 20 9:06 AM


Iraqis inspect a destroyed building in which six people died in central Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq , Wednesday, Oct 20, 2004, after U.S. forces fired rockets in to central Fallujah early Wednesday. The couple and their four children had just returned to their home overnight after having fled the city a week earlier, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) AP - Oct 20 6:17 AM

[Wickerman]

1. Yeah, ask Pat Robertson, there won't be any casualties

[izzie]

2. I swear this will go down in history like Germany in Spain.

The world has hardly forgave us for Vietnam. I do not think you can just keep killing every day people with a world class military and get away with it.

[Union Thug]

3. yeah, that's the ticket! No Casualties

And, yeah, my wife told me, you know my wife, her name is Morgan, Morgan Fairchild, that's the ticket... and she said not to worry, cuz her good friend Lil' George said that there are no casualities. Got that? yeah, i thought so.

[grumpy old fart]

4. No such thing as a surgical strike

We need more truth, pictures, from the media about the untold thousands of civilian deaths being inflicted in this war. Every bombing in these densely populated areas is described by big media as a "precision strike" at some terrorist hideout. How Americans think you can drop a 500 pound bomb in the middle of a heavily populated block of a big city and not kill civilians, is beyond me. Simple pictures, pictures, pictures would stop this war in its tracks, but the Ministry of Homeland Security will never let that happen.

[knowbody0]

6. i so agree with you

these images would shock and awe americans
it speaks volumes about our ignorant arrogance, these pictures are deemed to be in poor taste by our so called media. pictures are what stopped the war in vietnam

[bigtree]

7. visit this site daily

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=ISO-8859-1&c=news_photos&p=iraq

scroll thru.

[LisaLynne]

5. There are pictures!

Civilians are being killed. Even Rummy knows that. What is the good of trying to deny it? I suppose that's the only thing they can do, so that those who really can't understand real news or think for themselves can continue to live in their little fantasy worlds. Ugh, it's getting so hard to take!

[porphyrian]

8. The bombs are packed with Smart Shrapnel.

It only flies into military targets. It's those bastards' primitive buildings that expode into the civilians, and it's Clinton's fault!

Yep.