It makes me sick to read this stuff. I saw on TV tonight a US helicopter opening fire from the air against a crowd dancing on a blown out Bradlee Fighting Vehicle. It takes a real man to shoot an unarmed dancers from the sky. (Not saying they were right, but they shouldn't be shot at.)
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U.S. strikes Falluja
Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes attacked a building Monday in Falluja where associates of al-Zarqawi were meeting, the U.S. military said.
The strike followed clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in the Sunni Muslim stronghold west of Baghdad.
A coalition statement described the attack as "a successful precision strike on a confirmed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terrorist meeting."
U.S. Air Force F-16s dropped a pair of 500-pound, satellite-guided bombs, military officials said.
"Intelligence sources reported the presence of several key [al-Zarqawi] operatives who have been responsible for numerous terrorist attacks against Iraqi civilians, Iraqi security forces and multinational forces," the center said.
Twenty people were killed and 38 others wounded in the airstrikes and gunbattles, said Saad al-Amili of the Iraqi Ministry of Health. Five women and four children were among the wounded, he said.
One of the strikes hit an ambulance, killing four people, according to a CNN journalist in Falluja. A hospital official said the four had been wounded shortly before the U.S. attack but did not say how.
It was not clear how many of those killed or wounded were insurgents, al-Zarqawi associates or civilians.
The most intense fighting began in Falluja in April, after four U.S. security contractors were killed and their dismembered bodies suspended from a bridge over the Euphrates River.
Marine Lt. Gen. James T. Conway, former U.S. Marine commander of forces in western Iraq, said Sunday that he had opposed the method and timing of the U.S. response to those attacks.
Conway made his comments shortly after relinquishing his command at a ceremony at Marine headquarters outside Falluja.
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U.S. strikes Falluja
Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes attacked a building Monday in Falluja where associates of al-Zarqawi were meeting, the U.S. military said.
The strike followed clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in the Sunni Muslim stronghold west of Baghdad.
A coalition statement described the attack as "a successful precision strike on a confirmed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terrorist meeting."
U.S. Air Force F-16s dropped a pair of 500-pound, satellite-guided bombs, military officials said.
"Intelligence sources reported the presence of several key [al-Zarqawi] operatives who have been responsible for numerous terrorist attacks against Iraqi civilians, Iraqi security forces and multinational forces," the center said.
Twenty people were killed and 38 others wounded in the airstrikes and gunbattles, said Saad al-Amili of the Iraqi Ministry of Health. Five women and four children were among the wounded, he said.
One of the strikes hit an ambulance, killing four people, according to a CNN journalist in Falluja. A hospital official said the four had been wounded shortly before the U.S. attack but did not say how.
It was not clear how many of those killed or wounded were insurgents, al-Zarqawi associates or civilians.
The most intense fighting began in Falluja in April, after four U.S. security contractors were killed and their dismembered bodies suspended from a bridge over the Euphrates River.
Marine Lt. Gen. James T. Conway, former U.S. Marine commander of forces in western Iraq, said Sunday that he had opposed the method and timing of the U.S. response to those attacks.
Conway made his comments shortly after relinquishing his command at a ceremony at Marine headquarters outside Falluja.
