U.S. Baghdad strikes kill 13, including toddlers

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A man covers a toddler killed during U.S. military attack, in a hospital morgue in Baghdad's Sadr City October 21, 2007. U.S. air strikes killed at least 13 people and wounded 52 early on Sunday in the northeastern Baghdad district of Sadr city, a stronghold for Shi'ite militants, police sources said.
REUTERS/Kareem Raheem

Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:40am EDT
By Sattar Raheem and Aseel Kami
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes in a Shi'ite
stronghold of Baghdad early on Sunday killed two
toddlers, Reuters TV footage showed, in clashes
that police said left a total of 13 dead and 69
wounded.
The bodies of the toddlers, one in a nappy, lay on
crumpled blankets in the morgue of Imam Ali hospital
in the poor district of Sadr City where doctors
tended to wounded men and boys.
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"The operation's objective was an individual reported
to be a long-time special groups member specializing
in kidnapping operations," the U.S. military said in
a statement.
"Upon arrival, the ground force began to clear a
series of buildings in the target area when they were
engaged by machinegun fire and rocket propelled
grenades from adjacent structures. Supporting
aircraft was called in to suppress the enemy fire,
killing an estimated six criminals," it said.

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