Two Iraqi children killed in car, U.S. blamed

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/FRI235590.htm

FALLUJA, Iraq, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Two young Iraqi girls were killed on Friday when their car came under U.S. fire near the rebel-held city of Falluja, according to an Iraqi who helped rescue four people wounded in the incident.

Villager Mahmoud Mohammed said the mother of the two girls and the driver of the car, who were both wounded, had told him a U.S. tank had fired at the vehicle in Naamiya, 10 km (six miles) southeast of Falluja. Two other children in the car were hurt.

Hospital officials in Falluja confirmed the casualties.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military, which has intensified air and artillery strikes around Falluja in the past week in what it says is a drive against foreign fighters led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

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[izzie]

1. Well you can be sure it will not get to Bush.

Doing Gods work is very hard.

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2. "No immediate comment from the US military ..."

... but a Pentagon official speaking under conditions of anonymity
confirmed that a pre-emptive strike on two potential suicide bombers
was successfully carried out near Falluja ...

There are times when sarcasm is almost indistinguishable from the truth.