American troops still dying in Iraq; Iraqi family wiped out by U.S. airstrike

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4 U.S. Soldiers, Interpreter Killed In Iraq Fighting

Americans Blamed in Death of 4 Relatives

By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, June 26, 2008; Page A10

BAGHDAD, June 25 -- Four U.S. soldiers died in roadside bombings Tuesday and Wednesday, the U.S. military said, bringing to 10 the number of Americans killed in Iraq since Monday.

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Meanwhile, Iraqi officials said a U.S. airstrike killed four members of a family north of Baghdad early Wednesday. Iraqi and U.S. officials provided conflicting accounts of the incident.

Capt. Ahmed al-Azwawi, a police official in Samra, a village about seven miles south of Tikrit, said U.S. troops were conducting an operation in the area when a man fired shots in the air with an AK-47.

Azwawi said the man, who sold propane gas for a living, was afraid thieves were in the vicinity.

U.S. soldiers then retreated and called in an airstrike, Azwawi said, killing the man, his wife, and two of their children.

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