U.S. raids kill family of 6 in Iraq
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes have killed a family of six in raids against rebels led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, while a top international aid agency has suspended Iraq operations after its manager was kidnapped.
A Reuters witness saw a man and a woman and four children, two boys and two girls, being pulled out of the rubble of a razed home in the rebel-held city of Falluja, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad on Wednesday.
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"Is this the gift that (interim Iraqi Prime Minister) Iyad Allawi is giving to the people of Falluja?" asked one man, pointing to the small bodies of two of the children lying in the trunk of a car. "Every day they strike Falluja."
Meanwhile, in peaceful, US-controlled Samarra:
At least eight civilians were killed and 11 U.S. soldiers wounded in clashes in Samarra, a northern town the U.S. military said it had pacified following an offensive earlier this month.
Two car bombs killed a child and also wounded a civilian translator in the centre of the town, the U.S. military said. A police official said eight civilians had been killed and 12 wounded in clashes.
Democracy is breaking out all over the place. Breaking out in hives.
Care International, an aid agency working in Iraq on health and water projects, suspended operations after its British-Iraqi manager in Iraq, Margaret Hassan, was abducted and said it might pull out of the country altogether.
Oh - make sure you watch the inspirational Bush-sponsored video on that page : "Digging for bodies in Falluja"