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Report: 15 killed by US jets in Iraq
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-07-06 01:30
U.S. jets attacked a house in the turbulent city of Fallujah on Monday,
witnesses and police said. As many as 15 people were killed in the blast,
according to an Arab television station's report.
A Fallujah resident
picks through the rubble of a house in Fallujah, Iraq Saturday, June 26,
2004. The building was destroyed a day earlier in an American airstrike.
[AP] |
Ambulances headed to the eastern side
of the city, where U.S. airstrikes have frequently targeted safe houses used by
members of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's network. Rescue workers
picked up body parts, witnesses said.
"U.S. jets shelled a residential house in the al-Shuhdaa neighborhood in
Fallujah," said police Capt. Mekky Hussein al-Zaidan.
The U.S. military had no comment on the attack.
He had no word on casualties, but Al-Arabiya reported that as many as 15
people were killed.
U.S. forces have hit the area with four airstrikes since June 19, killing
dozens.
Fallujah residents sift through
debris in Fallujah, Iraq Thursday, July 1, 2004, after the U.S. military
launched another airstrike on a suspected hideout of terrorist mastermind
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It was the fourth attack this month against
suspected terrorist targets in the city.
[AP] |
Al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant linked
to al-Qaida, is believed to be behind a series of coordinated attacks on police
and security forces that killed 100 people only days before U.S. forces handed
over power to an Iraqi interim government.
Al-Zarqawi also is believed to be behind the beheading of two hostages,
American Nicholas Berg and South Korean Kim Sun-il.
U.S. authorities have increased to US$25 million the reward for information
leading to his arrest, more than doubling the previous $10 million bounty.
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