17 killed in US airstrike on suspected Zarqawi hideouts in Fallujah
AFP, September, 2004
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FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) — Seventeen Iraqis were killed and six wounded in a US air strike overnight on suspected Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi safe houses in Fallujah, medical officials and the US military said.
Two buildings were destroyed when a US fighter jet fired two missiles around 11:45 pm (1945 GMT) at two buildings in the residential neighbourhood of Jebel in Fallujah, a hotspot of radical Sunni insurgency 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police and medical officials said.
"We now have 17 dead people and six wounded," said Doctor Seifeddin Taha, from the Fallujah general hospital.
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"All the wounded are families. Among the dead, there could be two or three children but the bodies are torn to pieces and it's difficult to tell," he told AFP overnight.
The US military confirmed the attack in a statement, describing it as a "precision" strike on "safe houses and meeting ...
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