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Iraqis Say Civilians Killed in U.S. Raids
Grieving Iraqis comfort each other. According to the U.S. military, 70 insurgents were killed during the airstrikes, which took place in an area known for its heavy insurgent presence.
(Bilal Hussein - AP)
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Another boy, 6-year-old Muhammed Salih Ali, was buried in a plastic bag after relatives collected what they believed to be parts of his body, mourners said.
Fuad listed the names and ages of what he said were five of the other children killed.
Residents said late Monday that 10 other children were killed in the same strike. The names, ages and other details of the other alleged child victims could not immediately be obtained Monday night after the funeral.
The U.S. military's account of the airstrike said nothing about a second attack Sunday on a Humvee.
According to the military statement, an F-15 crew on a combat patrol saw four vehicles arrive at the scene of Saturday's roadside bomb. About 20 men were inside, the military said.
The men were in the process of planting another bomb in the same crater "when the F-15 engaged them with a precision-guided bomb, resulting in the confirmed death of all the terrorists on the ground," the military statement said.
Insurgents in Iraq frequently use bomb craters from old blasts to hide explosives for more attacks.
The Associated Press also reported that 25 civilians were killed in that airstrike, citing a tribal leader, Chiad Saad.
Officials at Ramadi hospital said at least 13 armed fighters of Abu Musab Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq movement also were killed in the day's bombings, along with the civilians they said were killed.
At the hospital, the fly-covered bodies of three children and a woman lay on the ground outside, with no room left in the hospital's refrigeration units.
Residents said U.S. forces had bombed two houses in northern Ramadi. The women and three children had been inside a home of a wealthy local man, identified only as Haj Abdullah, who had agreed to take in wounded insurgents to tend to them, some residents said. Other residents denied that account.
The U.S. military statement described a string of air attacks Sunday around Ramadi, including the crew of a Cobra helicopter opening fire Sunday night on alleged insurgents seen running from a suspected insurgent safe house. The insurgents had shot at the Cobra as they ran away, the military said.
