What for timing, with Katrina and stuff..
"U.S. forces launched a series of air strikes along Iraq's border with Syria, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
The air raids started at about 6:20 a.m. in a number of towns near the western city of Qaim along the Syrian border, 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, AP reported.
Al Qaim hospital official said that more than 47 people died in the U.S. attacks, which destroyed two houses.
Iraqi officials said clashes erupted in the area between a tribe that backs foreign fighters and another that supports the Iraqi government.
The U.S. military statement didn?t mention the tribal fighting but said four bombs were dropped to destroy a house occupied by what it said were "terrorists" outside the town of Husaybah.
Read the whole on Aljazeera
Nobody in the states is really going to look at Iraq right now due to Katrina.
Another Story making headlines
" At least 630 Iraqi Shiites killed in stampede
More than 630 Iraqi Shiites died when they stampeded off a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad after a bloody mortar attack near a Shiite shrine north of the capital, AFP reported, citing an Iraqi security official.
"U.S. forces launched a series of air strikes along Iraq's border with Syria, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
The air raids started at about 6:20 a.m. in a number of towns near the western city of Qaim along the Syrian border, 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, AP reported.
Al Qaim hospital official said that more than 47 people died in the U.S. attacks, which destroyed two houses.
Iraqi officials said clashes erupted in the area between a tribe that backs foreign fighters and another that supports the Iraqi government.
The U.S. military statement didn?t mention the tribal fighting but said four bombs were dropped to destroy a house occupied by what it said were "terrorists" outside the town of Husaybah.
Read the whole on Aljazeera
Nobody in the states is really going to look at Iraq right now due to Katrina.
Another Story making headlines
" At least 630 Iraqi Shiites killed in stampede
More than 630 Iraqi Shiites died when they stampeded off a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad after a bloody mortar attack near a Shiite shrine north of the capital, AFP reported, citing an Iraqi security official.
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