The Iraqi army reported heavy mortar shelling at 2 a.m. today on the Polish-run Echo base outside the city of Diwaniya, about 90 miles south of Baghdad. Two U.S. jets responded by bombing two nearby neighborhoods, demolishing nine houses and killing seven people, including women and children, and wounding 26 others, according to a member of the Iraqi army’s 8th Division.
At 9 a.m. today, guards at the government building in Diwaniya fired at locals gathered outside to protest the morning bombings. A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed, according to the Iraqi army and the local office of the political party associated with Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, who is critical of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
The U.S. military could not immediately confirm details of the Diwaniya incidents.
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The Iraqi army reported heavy mortar shelling at 2 a.m. today on the Polish-run Echo base outside the city of Diwaniya, about 90 miles south of Baghdad. Two U.S. jets responded by bombing two nearby neighborhoods, demolishing nine houses and killing seven people, including women and children, and wounding 26 others, according to a member of the Iraqi army’s 8th Division.
At 9 a.m. today, guards at the government building in Diwaniya fired at locals gathered outside to protest the morning bombings. A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed, according to the Iraqi army and the local office of the political party associated with Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr, who is critical of the U.S. presence in Iraq.
The U.S. military could not immediately confirm details of the Diwaniya incidents.
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