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Sunday, June 20, 2004

Reuters.com | Iraq's Allawi Welcomes U.S. Strike That Killed 22

This is another case of when the headline gives you a completely different picture than the article. The headline suggests that the US strike was against insurgents, the article suggests just the contrary.

"Iraq's prime minister on Sunday defended a U.S. air strike that killed 22 people in Falluja, but Iraqi officers in the town said the dead included women and children rather than foreign Muslim militants.

'We know that a house which had been used by terrorists had been hit. We welcome this hit on terrorists anywhere in Iraq,' interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told a news conference.

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However, Falluja's police chief and a senior officer in the Falluja Brigade in charge of security in the fiercely anti-U.S. town denied that foreign fighters had operated from the house.

'We inspected the damage, we looked through the bodies of the women and children and elderly. This was a family,' Brigadier Nouri Aboud of the Falluja Brigade told Reuters.
'There is no sign of foreigners having lived in the house. Zarqawi and his men have no presence in Falluja.'
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