| A U.S. air strike on the Iraqi city of Falluja killed at least eight people, Iraqi medical sources said early on Thursday. The U.S. military said in a separate statement it had "conducted a precision attack" on Wednesday evening against two safe houses used by associates of al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in southwest Falluja, a city in the Sunni triangle west of Baghdad. Earlier on Wednesday Zarqawi associates conducted an execution in southern Falluja, the U.S. statement said. "The Zarqawi associates were observed removing a man from the trunk of a car, executing him, then burying his body," the statement said. It added that the house attacked in the air strike was next to fields. |