IRAQ: AT LEAST TWO IRAQI CIVILIANS ARE INJURED AFTER U.S. WARPLANES ATTACK SUSPECTED GUERRILLA HIDEOUTS IN FALLUJA
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IRAQ: AT LEAST TWO IRAQI CIVILIANS ARE INJURED AFTER U.S. WARPLANES ATTACK SUSPECTED GUERRILLA HIDEOUTS IN FALLUJA
- Title: IRAQ: AT LEAST TWO IRAQI CIVILIANS ARE INJURED AFTER U.S. WARPLANES ATTACK SUSPECTED GUERRILLA HIDEOUTS IN FALLUJA
- Date: 10th November 2003
- Summary: (W4) FALLUJA, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 10, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WS: LARGE BOMB CRATER CAUSED BY THE RAID 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF SHRAPNEL ON GROUND (2 SHOTS) 0.16 3. CLOSE OF CRATER IN GROUND WITH HOUSE IN BACKGROUND 0.21 4. SLV: NEARBY HOUSE WITH RESIDENTS STANDING OUTSIDE 0.26 5. CHILDREN AND WOMEN AT THE HOUSE DOOR 0.31 6. (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) WOMAN NAMED UMM KHALID STANDING NEXT TO HER WOUNDED SON, SAYING: "We heard the bombing and we started running away. When the next rocket fell he (son) fell on the ground and I carried him to hospital. It was the American rocket." 0.47 7. (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) SON SHOWING BANDAGE SAYING: "I was wounded by the rocket." 0.57 8. BOMB REMAINS 1.00 9. WS: EXTERIOR OF UMM KHALID'S HOUSE 1.05 10. WOUNDED MAN LIMPING 1.12 11. SV/CU: OLD MAN WITH BANDAGED LEG AT HIS HOUSE (2 SHOTS) 1.23 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: FALLUJA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA29RVD54ZGC68W9MK2G5ZFXPPV
- Story Text: At least two Iraqi civilians were injured on Sunday
when U.S. warplanes attacked suspected guerrilla hideouts
near Falluja.
U.S. warplanes bombed targets in Iraq on Sunday
(November 9) in air strikes that resumed last week for the
first time in more than six months after the recent
shooting down of three U.S. helicopters.
In the latest air strikes, F-16 fighter-bombers dropped
three 500-pound bombs near the flashpoint town of Falluja,
in an area west of Baghdad where 16 U.S. soldiers were
killed when a U.S. Chinook helicopter was downed.
One of the bombs left a big crater in the ground and
injured at least two civilians in nearby houses,
eyewitnesses said.
One woman, Umm Khalid, told Reuters that she and her
14-year-old son had heard the bombing and had started to
run away. "When the next rocket fell he (her son) fell on
the ground and I carried him to hospital. It was the
American rocket," she said.
And, sitting in his house, an old man showed his
bandaged leg, which he said was injured in the bombing.
U.S. warplanes resumed air strikes on Friday (November
7) for the first since the official end of major combat on
May 1, bombing targets around Saddam Husseins hometown of
Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, where a U.S.
Black Hawk helicopter was shot down that day, killing all
six aboard.
Guerrillas have grown increasingly bold in launching
mortar attacks in the past week on the U.S.-led
administration on the West side of the Tigris River. The
attacks have not killed anyone but have wounded several
personnel in the coalition.
Washington blames the attacks on loyalists of ousted
Iraqi leader Saddam and foreign Muslim militants.
The air strikes followed attacks on U.S. troops, a U.S.
military source said. He had no precise details.
Attacks on U.S. troops have left 151 dead in Iraq since
President George Bush declared major combat over in May.
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