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revised and edited version: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ron_full_071024_iraqis_looking_to_u_.htm


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The military spokesman, yesterday, blamed the killings of civilians on the Iraqis themselves. But, another account in the LATimes quoted residents who said the victims were farmers and villagers who gathered after the initial attacks and fell victim to the ensuing airstrikes.

from the LATimes:

Residents in the village of Mukaisheefa, about 80 miles north of Baghdad, contested the military account, saying that 15 people were killed and that the men were farmers irrigating their fields in the pre-daylight hours.

Abdul Wahab Ahmed, a neighbor, said the dead included two toddlers and four teenagers. Five were women, he said.

Ahmed said two of the three farmers were killed in the field, and a third, who was injured, went back to the village of several dozen houses. As neighbors gathered around the man's house, jets made two bombing runs, Ahmed said.