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| US air raid kills Iraq civilians | US air raid kills Iraq civilians |
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| The US military says at least seven people, including three women, have been killed in an air strike in Iraq. | |
| The US said it was targeting insurgents in the village of al-Dawr, near Tikrit north of Baghdad, where Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003. | |
| Witnesses are quoted as saying the attack happened after US troops had surrounded a compound in the village. | Witnesses are quoted as saying the attack happened after US troops had surrounded a compound in the village. |
| The village is home of a former leader of the Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who is still a fugitive. | The village is home of a former leader of the Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who is still a fugitive. |
| A military statement said those killed included four suspected insurgents and three women. A child was pulled from the rubble of the building and was treated at a nearby US base. | |
| It said the target was a man believed to be the leader of a bombing network in the area north of Baghdad. | |
| Reports quote Iraqi officials and neighbours saying that the family whose members were killed in the air strike had no connection to the insurgency. | |
| The US said its forces surrounded the compound and called for its occupants to surrender after the main suspect, who was armed, had shown "hostile intent" at a doorway and been shot dead by troops. | |
| However, nobody emerged from the building four about one hour "despite multiple warnings" the statement said, and the troops called in the air strike. | |
| "Sadly, this incident again shows that the terrorists repeatedly risk the lives of innocent women and children to further their evil work," said US military spokesman Colonel Jerry O'Hara. |