U.S. raid targeting insurgents kills 2 women, child in Iraq

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003144178_iraq22.html

BAGHDAD — At least five people, including two women and a child, were killed early Friday morning in a raid by American special-operations forces targeting suspected insurgents in Baqouba.

U.S. military officials said two of the men killed in the city northeast of Baghdad were believed to be insurgent associates of a senior leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq group previously headed by the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Along with the women and child who were killed Friday, at least 25 other people were wounded. snip

"They demolished three houses with children in them just because they wanted two insurgents?" asked Raad Dahlaki, chief of the municipal council in Baqouba. "Why couldn't they just detain the men? Why did they have to demolish these three houses?"

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