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The Ramadi & Baghdad Killings -
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Background
- February 21st, 2007 “U.S. troops battled insurgents in fierce fighting
that killed at least 12 people in the volatile Sunni city of Ramadi, the
military said today. Iraqi authorities said the dead included women and
children. The six-hour firefight began after U.S. troops were attacked by
insurgents with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades Wednesday
evening in eastern Ramadi, said marine spokesman 1st Lt. Shawn Mercer. The
fighting ended after ‘precision-guided munitions’ damaged a number of
buildings being used by the insurgents, he said. Twelve insurgents were
killed and three wounded, Mercer said. He said there were no civilian
casualties. However, Dr. Hafidh Ibrahim of the Ramadi Hospital said 26
people, including four women and children, were killed when three houses were
damaged in the fighting. An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of
two small boys wrapped in a blanket, one with a bloody face, the other ashen
and with mud on his mouth, his hands crossed on his chest. Four or five
bodies were covered by blankets, while several men pulled at a pile of rubble
and concrete bricks outside, apparently the wreckage of one of the destroyed
houses. […]” Excerpt
of an “Associated Press” article
from February 22nd, 2007. |
After the firefight: Killed Iraqi boy |
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February 24th, 2007 - Iraqi Children Killed in
Baghdad Clash 1 news
article by Reuters February 23rd, 2007 - U.S. Investigates Report of
Iraqi Civilians Killed 1 news
article by Reuters February 22nd, 2007 - Civilians Die As U.S. Troops,
Insurgents Clash 1 news article by
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February 21st, 2007 - Seven Terrorists Killed, 13
Detained In VBIED, Foreign Fighter Raids Press release by
the Multi-National Force-Iraq Combined Press Information Center |
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War Scenes from Ramadi & Baghdad |
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Ramadi - After the air attack I |
Ramadi - After the air attack II |
Baghdad - After the firefight |
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Background 1) Relatives identify the body of a boy, recovered
from the rubble of houses destroyed during clashes between U.S. forces and
insurgents in Ramadi, 100 km west of Baghdad. - February 22, 2007 - Reuters; War Scenes from Ramadi 1)
Iraqis search for survivors amid the rubble of a bombed house in the city of
Ramadi, western Iraq. - February 22nd, 2007 - Basem
Al-Anbari/Agence France Presse; 2)
Residents search for bodies in the rubble of houses destroyed during clashes
between U.S. forces and insurgents in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of
Baghdad. - February 22nd, 2007 - Reuters; 3) An
Iraqi child lies dead on the ground in Zaafaraniya, south of Baghdad. - February
23rd, 2007 - Reuters; |
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