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New strikes in falluja Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6348595 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6348595 U.S. Says Strikes Pro-Zarqawi Hideout in Iraq Tue Sep 28, 2004 01:15 AM ET FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes struck a suspected hideout for followers of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Falluja on Tuesday, destroying the building and killing an unknown number of militants, the U.S. military said. The military said U.S. forces "conducted a precision strike" on the confirmed "Zarqawi terrorist site" in southern Falluja. "Several credible intelligence sources confirmed that members of the terrorist group were operating at the site at the time of the strike," a statement from the military said. It said it had specifically struck rising members of Zarqawi's organization, which has claimed responsibility for several of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq over the past year, including the beheading of several foreign hostages. There were no immediate reports from doctors in Falluja of any civilian deaths or casualties from the air attack. The military has been at pains to discredit consistent reports from doctors and residents that women and children have been killed or wounded in repeated air strikes on Falluja in the past couple of weeks. A senior U.S. military official said last week he believed there were very few or next to no civilian casualties from the air raids, and suggested some doctors were reporting civilian casualties in an effort to malign the Americans. In video footage shot after one air strike last week, a small child was rescued from the rubble of a building. The same U.S. official said Zarqawi's network had been sharply degraded in recent weeks, with up to 100 of his associates killed in U.S. bombing operations. The military, quoting sources, said those targeted on Tuesday were planning attacks using foreign suicide bombers. It said it didn't know how many people had been killed. "Based on detailed intelligence and analysis, multi-national forces accurately targeted this terrorist location while protecting the surrounding homes," the statement said. "Intelligence indicated that only Zarqawi operatives and associates were at the site at the time of the strike."

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