Missiles fired at home of alleged insurgent in Iraqi town: witnesses

[Barrett808]

US soldiers sealed off part of a town near here, ordered residents out and then launched a missile strike against the home of an alleged anti-coalition rebel, witnesses said Friday.

A US military spokesman in Baghdad had no information on the incident, which witnesses said occurred in Khaldiyah, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of the Iraqi capital.

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Residents said the home belonged to Saad Ali Abed, 35, a businessman detained for about a week by US forces.

After the operation, inhabitants of the town took out their anger on journalists whom they accused of exaggerating anti-American attacks in the area. The news reports have provoked US retaliation, they said.

Several reporters' cars, including one belonging to an AFP correspondent, were damaged.

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http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031226144804.8mngc9ro.html

[Voltaire99]

1. The Israeli model?

Is this what the Israeli military has been advising US forces during their recent consultations? Demolish homes in residential areas?

I expect the tactic will prove no more successful for one illegal occupier than it has for another.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Exactly, it is the IDF tactics used in the occupied Palestine!

A tactic that includes dynamiting the homes of the families of people responsible for attacks on the IDF. Can you imagine the reaction in the US if our government started to do the same here?

[xchrom]

3. damn -- whad the house do?

bad house, bad.