or, anywhere else . . .US, Iraqis differ on casualties in Ramadi battle
04 May 2006 14:53:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04731714.htmRAMADI, Iraq, May 4 (Reuters) - Iraqi doctors and neighbours in the Sunni Arab city of Ramadi accused U.S. troops of killing children in a missile strike on Thursday but the military said there had been no civilian casualties in the clash.
Local television footage showed the body of a boy lying in the rubble of a house. Hospital and police officials gave death tolls ranging from five to 13, with up to another 15 wounded.
Muhannad al-Fahadawi, a doctor at the main hospital, said two girls and a boy aged 8 were among at least 11 people he believed had been killed in the violence. A teenage girl was shown to reporters being treated for wounds in the hospital.
In an e-mail response, U.S. military spokesman Sergeant Doug Anderson said: "There were no Coalition or civilian casualties."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04731714.htmthey always report 20, 50, 100 insurgents killed with no accountability as to the dead's actual identity.