said a US helicopter had fired into some Iraqis who were guarding their houses at dawn on Monday

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/August/focusoniraq_August32.xml§ion=focusoniraq


At least 42 killed, 89 wounded across Iraq
(DPA)

6 August 2007

BAGHDAD - At least 42 Iraqi civilians were killed and 89 wounded in two blasts and a US airstrike in and around the conflict- torn Iraq on Monday, sources said.

At least 28 civilians were killed in a suicide attack in which a truck loaded with explosives was driven into a densely populated Shiite area in Talafar, police chief for Ninewa province Abdul-Karim al-Jabouri told the independent Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

Twelve children were among those killed and more than 50 Iraqis, including eight women, were injured in the attack, he added.

Talafar is 420 kilometres north of Baghdad and 70 kilometres from the Syrian border.

In south Baghdad, more than eight Iraqis were killed and nine injured in an explosion at the main bus station in the Baghdad suburb of Jisr Diyala, a police source told VOI. Several cars and buses parked nearby were damaged.

Meanwhile, six Iraqis were killed and 30 wounded, including women and children in a US airstrike in the city of Doualiya in Salah Eddin province, an Iraqi security source said.

The source, speaking from provincial capital Tikrit, said a US helicopter had fired into some Iraqis who were guarding their houses at dawn on Monday, the source added.

The victims had been holding weapons to protect themselves from the militants who frequently raid Doualiya, 100 kilometres of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the source added.

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1. I can't stand this much longer, and I'm no where near the death

and the destruction.

This is now a bi-partisan slaughter house. THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO HANG ITS HEAD IN SHAME. That includes everyone not for impeachment.

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2. Imagine getting the choice of protecting your family from roving death squads...

...or having them blown up to smithereens by US helicopters.

Not much of a choice.

Don