Boston.com | U.S. jets bomb suspected militant hideout in Fallujah; at least 16 killed

"Witnesses said the bombing targeted the city's residential al-Shurta neighborhood, damaging buildings and raising clouds of black smoke.

Dr. Adel Khamis of the Fallujah General Hospital said at least 16 people were killed, including women and children, and 12 others wounded. An ambulance rushing from the area of the blasts was hit by a shell, killing the driver, a paramedic and five patients inside the vehicle, said another hospital official, Hamid Salaman.

''The conditions here are miserable an ambulance was bombed, three houses destroyed and men and women killed,'' the hospital's director, Rafayi Hayad al-Esawi, told pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television by telephone. ''The American army has no morals.''

Witnesses said U.S. warplanes repeatedly swooped low over the city and that artillery units deployed on the outskirts of the city also opened fire. The explosions started at sunrise and continued for several hours. "

The inevitable conclusion to the events in Iraq.