Thursday, February 02, 2006

Winning hearts and minds in Iraq.


What is the U.S. going to do with all that good will?

A U.S. helicopter fired rockets into a crowded Shiite neighbourhood of eastern Baghdad on Thursday, killing a young woman, after the aircraft was fired on, the U.S. command said...

Thursday's early morning attack in the vast eastern Baghdad area of Sadr City damaged several houses and cars, and both residents and Shiite politicians condemned the U.S. attack as reckless and provocative...

The military had no details on casualties, but Sadr City resident Abdul-Hussein Shanoof said his 20-year-old daughter, Ikhlas Abdul-Hussein, was killed. Shanoof was also wounded, along with another woman and a two-year-old child.

Footage showed Shanoof's house with a large hole blasted through his roof and rubble scattered inside.

"At night, the aircraft bombed this and that house. One girl died. The aircraft remained bombing us until morning," a Sadr City resident, who declined to identify himself, told AP Television News.

Democracy in Iraq: on the march, one helicopter gunship at a time.

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