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Iraqis killed by US troops ‘on rampage’

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March 26, 2006
Hala Jaber and Tony Allen-Mills, New York

According to Iraqi police, 11 bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the house, among them four women and five children aged between six months and five years. An official police report obtained by a US reporter for Knight Ridder newspapers said: “The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people.”
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