U.S.: Iraq Wedding Attack Was Legitimate [View All]

[leftchick]

Those dead babies and moms did not look like "foreign fighters" to me....


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=10&u=/ap/20040630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_wedding_party

"Post-strike intelligence still leads us to conclude that that was a location that was a way station for a number of foreign fighters coming into the country," a senior U.S military official said on condition of anonymity. "We still believe that it was a significant intelligence target."


The attack on May 19 killed more than 40 people, Iraqi officials said. The U.S. military said the target was a suspected safehouse for foreign fighters from Syria. Police and survivors said the victims had been attending a wedding.


Family members provided Associated Press Television News with video showing a bride in a Western-style wedding dress and people celebrating in a tent. The video did not show the actual attack.


However, a musician seen playing a keyboard was shown dead in another video made when the survivors brought bodies back to Ramadi for burial. The musician's family said he was killed in the air strike