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Women cry after seeing the bodies of their relatives who were killed in a US air strike in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday. A US raid and air strike killed eight people, including seven members of one family, and wounded two others in the town of Baquba, the US military and police said. – Reuters STORY..

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US strike kills four insurgents, four civilian women
(AFP)

27 September 2006



BAQUBA, Iraq - Four insurgents from a group linked to Al Qaeda were killed in an assault Wednesday by United States forces north of Baghdad that also left four civilian women dead, the US military said.

The attack happened in the early hours of the morning in the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.

“Coalition forces killed four suspected terrorists and wounded two others during a raid the morning of September 27 targeting a terrorist tied to extremist leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq in ... Diyalah and Salaheddin provinces,” the statement said.

In the course of the raid, US forces came under heavy fire and aircraft were called in to help “neutralize” the threat, it said.