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BAGHDAD - US warplanes bomb the insurgent-held city of Fallujah early Friday, killing at least 12 people, medics said, just hours after rockets slammed into a Baghdad hotel used by foreign journalists and contractors.
As US and Iraqi troops battled to Iraq's bloody insurgency, militiamen loyal to a radical Shiite Muslim cleric offered to surrender major weapons in return for the release of prisoners and a role in Iraq's political process.
The US military said it was a "precision strike" targeting leaders of Iraq's most wanted man, the Al-Qaeda-linked militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
"We have received 10 dead and 16 wounded," said Dr Khaled Mohammad, noting that the bride was among nine injured females.
Two more bodies were pulled from the rubble of a house where the wedding party had taken place, which was destroyed in the attack, said a second doctor at Fallujah general hospital, Ali Hayad.
People were still sifting threw the rubble, he said.
The US military, for which the Sunni Muslim bastion of Fallujah west of Baghdad has since April become a no-go zone for its ground troops, gave no information on casualties in a statement released after the raid.
"This strike contributed to reducing the capability of the Zarqawi network and increasing safety and security throughout Iraq," it said.
As US and Iraqi troops battled to Iraq's bloody insurgency, militiamen loyal to a radical Shiite Muslim cleric offered to surrender major weapons in return for the release of prisoners and a role in Iraq's political process.
The US military said it was a "precision strike" targeting leaders of Iraq's most wanted man, the Al-Qaeda-linked militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
"We have received 10 dead and 16 wounded," said Dr Khaled Mohammad, noting that the bride was among nine injured females.
Two more bodies were pulled from the rubble of a house where the wedding party had taken place, which was destroyed in the attack, said a second doctor at Fallujah general hospital, Ali Hayad.
People were still sifting threw the rubble, he said.
The US military, for which the Sunni Muslim bastion of Fallujah west of Baghdad has since April become a no-go zone for its ground troops, gave no information on casualties in a statement released after the raid.
"This strike contributed to reducing the capability of the Zarqawi network and increasing safety and security throughout Iraq," it said.
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