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| Five deaders in strike on Iraqi comms center... |
| 2002-07-20 |
| U.S. and British warplanes destroyed a military communications facility in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday. Iraq said the missile strike killed five people, including a couple and their children. The planes, patrolling the no-fly zone over southern Iraq, used precision-guided weapons to destroy the military site Thursday, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. The strikes came in response to continued Iraqi hostile actions toward coalition airplanes, it said. The Iraqi military said the coalition planes bombed "civilian and service installations" in Qadissiya province on Thursday night. The attack hit two nearby homes, destroying one and damaging the other, killing five people and injuring 17 others, the military said in a statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency. Among the dead were a husband, wife and their two children, the agency said. A 60-year-old man who was also killed was thought to be a relative. Funerals for the air raid victims were held Friday in Diwaniya, the capital of Qadissiya province, the agency said. Government officials and members of Saddam Hussein's ruling Baath Party attended. Mourners shouted "Down with Bush" and "Down with America," while others demanded Saddam extract revenge. They lived at a military comms center? Well, they're certainly justified in vowing dire (yawn!) revenge... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |