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“We dropped a few civilians, but what do you do?”
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Sergeant Schrumpf recalled watching one of the women standing near the Iraqi soldier go down. “I’m sorry, but the chick was in the way.”
[ Sergeant Schrumpf, US Sniper as reported by the New York Times ]
Reuters via ABC: U.S. forces have killed three Iraqis during shelling of a remote village on the border near Syria, an Arabic television channel reported Friday.
An Iraqi woman, her child and an Iraqi man died during the operation in the village of Maqarr al-Dheeb, located in the desert some 10 miles from Syria, Dubai-based al-Arabiya said.
“There is an intense military presence here now which has cordoned off the district,” a correspondent inside the village told the channel, adding that the shelling destroyed six homes.
U.S. personnel said U.S. forces, had received information that armed men were in the area, the correspondent said.