Can We Stop Bombing Wedding Parties in Iraq?
Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 11:37:54 AM PDT
If every wedding party was a meeting of jihadists and/or insurgents, wouldn't we just go around bombing wedding parties? Sound familiar?
(sorry if this had been covered earlier in the day)
U.S. airstrike reportedly hits wedding party
11 killed in Fallujah day after insurgents target Baghdad hotels
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 8:43 a.m. ET Oct. 8, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. air raid, aimed at foreign fighters led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed 11 people and wounded 17 after a wedding party in the rebel-held Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, residents and doctors said.
More after the bump.
The airstrike on Fallujah came a day after two rockets hit a downtown Baghdad hotel housing foreigners and journalists, and gunfire erupted in the neighborhood across the Tigris River from the U.S. Embassy compound. On Friday, the U.S. military said a "precision strike" hit a safe-house used by associates of the Jordanian Islamist militant in northwest Fallujah at 1:15 a.m. local time.
Rescuers dug bodies from rubble with their hands after the raid on the house where residents said a wedding party had just taken place. They said the groom died and the bride was wounded."Credible intelligence sources confirmed al-Zarqawi leaders were meeting at the safe-house at the time of the strike," a U.S. military statement said.
This at least the second time this has happened this year. When will this countrie,s people (USA) had enough? Success? You call this success, Mr. Bush?
Like the old court sentence, this administration should be sentenced to go sit in their own mess and just live there like the slumlords they are.