The air strike killed “nine criminals in Sadr City,” the military said without providing details

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Clashes in Baghdad Shia bastion kill 20
(AFP)

6 April 2008

BAGHDAD - Clashes between militiamen and US forces in the Iraqi capital’s Shiite bastion of Sadr City killed at least 20 people and wounded 52 others on Sunday, Iraqi security and medical officials told AFP.

Officials from Iraq’s security and defence ministries said women and children were among the dead and wounded.

Medical officials said 20 bodies were transferred to hospitals, where more than 50 people were also brought for treatment.

The US military told AFP its forces had carried out an air strike in Sadr City, Baghdad stronghold of the powerful Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, at around 8:00 am (0500 GMT).

The air strike killed “nine criminals in Sadr City,” the military said without providing details.

An AFP photographer on the scene said a US helicopter fired two missiles into Sadr City at around 11.00 am but the American military did not immediately confirm a second air strike.

Iraqi security officials had earlier said clashes erupted between Shiite fighters and US forces in Sadr City.

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1. Let's see, I wonder if murdering the wives, mothers, and children of a people

will calm them down and made them straighten up and fly right?

I seriously doubt it myself.

:sarcasm:

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2. They use smart bombs.

I have a co-worker who believes we only use smart bombs so whoever they kill are bad guys, naturally.

:silly:

edited to add the smilie that looks like my co-worker