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6 die as US starts bombing Fallujah (Operation Payback!)
 A US war plane bombed a suspected weapons site yesterday in the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah, where hospital sources said six people were killed and four wounded.Operation Payback With Interest is at last underway! "A US navy jet in support of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force dropped precision ordnance on a weapons cache site," said Major Francis Piccoli. "We destroyed the site and there was a large secondary explosion," said the marine spokesman, adding that this indicated there had been munitions in the area. Doctor Nabil Nuri, from the Fallujah general hospital, said six people were killed and four wounded. Witnesses had earlier said casualties were pulled out from under the rubble. Meanwhile, a Japanese hostage taken in Iraq has been killed, Kyodo said, citing information obtained by the Japanese government.
Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-30 |
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