US Planes Bomb Fallujah

US Planes Bomb Fallujah
At least 13 Iraqis have been killed after US military planes bombed a neighbourhood in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The US military on Thursday said they attacked a safe house belonging to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian accused by Washington of being a "terrorist". Hassan Ali Daly, Aljazeera's correspondent in the town, said US fighter planes targeted a building in the al-Jibail neighbourhood southwest of the town. US planes had targeted another suspected safe house in Fallujah last week. Medical sources said 10 people have also been wounded in the latest air raid. Efforts were underway to clear the rubble of the house to rescue possible survivors buried underneath. **US statement*** "On June the 30th, multinational forces conducted another strike on a known Zarqawi network safe house in southwest Falluja based on multi-confirmations of Iraqi and multinational intelligence," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the US military in Iraq, said in a statement. News agencies quoted some witnesses as saying that four bodies had been pulled from the house. "The house was completely destroyed. It is basically rubble," said one resident in Fallujah. "The strike left a huge hole where the building was." Witnesses said clashes involving small arms and mortar fire had broken out between US forces and Iraqi resistance fighters on the eastern edge of the town. **Baghdad attacks*** Aljazeera correspondent, Atwar Bahjat, reports that two Iraqis have been killed and another four, including a senior official at Iraq's Finance Ministry, wounded in a large explosion in the Al-Qadisiyah quarter in central Baghdad. "An explosion was heard in A'dhamiyah district, likely to be caused by car bomb," he said. "A number of explosions were heard near the Green Zone where the US embassy is based. Columns of smoke were seen rising and US helicopters hovering over the area." The official's name was Ihsane Karim Ghanem, according to a guard who was part of his escort. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Fallujah residents sift through debris in Fallujah, Iraq Thursday, July 1, 2004, after the U.S. military launched another airstrike on Fallujah. (AP)

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