BBC News:
Forty-nine Iraqi "criminals" have been killed in three separate raids in Sadr City in the capital, Baghdad, the US military says.
"The operation's objective was an individual reported to be a long-time Special Groups member specialising in kidnapping operations," it said.
Among the criminals, righteously removed from existence by the forces of freedom and democracy, were "a woman and three children." Associated Press tells us of "the bodies of two toddlers, one with a gouged face, swaddled in blankets on the floor of the morgue. Relatives said they were killed when helicopter gunfire hit their house as they slept. Their shirts were pulled up, exposing their abdomens. A diaper showed above the waistband of the shorts of one of the boys."
The US military, however, claims absolute perfection. "Ground forces reported they were unaware of any innocent civilians being killed as a result of this operation," the military said. Clearly, the babies were insurgents, since they weren't innocent.
"We were waking in the morning and all of a sudden rockets landed in the house and the children were screaming," a witness said...
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