Three day of mourning declared in Fallujah (after a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid)

[sabra]

Source: Azzaman (Iraq Daily)

The Iraqi city of Fallujah has declared three-day long mourning after a joint U.S.-Iraqi attack on the city killed at least 10 civilians and injured many others.

The raid on Wednesday has raised tensions and angered the city’s inhabitants as well as the nearly two million Muslim Sunnis who live in the Province of Anbar, west of Baghdad.

The Muslim Scholars Association, a group of powerful Muslim Sunni clerics in Iraq, described the raid as “a massacre in which two children were killed.”

U.S. and Iraqi officials claim that the raid killed a former Iraqi officer linked to al-Qaeda group in the country.

But the claim could not be substantiated and eyewitnesses and officials in the city said all the dead and injured were civilians.

Schools, offices and shops were closed in Fallujah on Thursday in protest against the attack was also strongly condemned by provincial officials of Anbar of which the city of Ramadi is the capital.



Read more: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2010-09-16/kurd.htm

[VMI Dem]

1. How could cooks and mechanics take part in a raid?

It didn't happen.

[Devil_Fish]

2. This couldn't have happend. the War is over. Obama said so. NT

[MetaTrope]

3. I hope our troops didn't breathe in any of that white phosphorus...

[Pavulon]

4. yep, the stupid are being sold that the cancer rate in falluja is many times more than chernobyl

people just get dumber and dumber..

[Socal31]

5. Unpossible.