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Titolo: Iraqis Condemn Prime Minister After Falluja Raid

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Iraqis Condemn Prime Minister After Falluja Raid
Sat Oct 2, 4:57 AM ET   Top Stories - Reuters 
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - After the latest U.S. air strike on Falluja,
enraged residents clasped wounded children and challenged Iraq (news -
web sites)'s prime minister to visit the town to see how bombs were
hitting civilians, not "terrorists." 
Reuters Photo 
"Is this a terrorist? Is this a terrorist? Iyad Allawi come and show
us the terrorists," screamed a man as he fixed a bandage on the head
of a small boy in his arms. 
A U.S. warplane struck Falluja late Friday night, the latest in a
weeks-long campaign of bombardments the U.S. military says are
targeting hideouts used by followers of Jordanian militant Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, the most hunted man in Iraq. 
Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, has been in rebel hands
since U.S. forces withdrew following a failed offensive on the city in
April. 
Since the handover of power to an Iraqi government in June, U.S.
forces are supposed to get a green light from the Iraqi government
before conducting any air strikes. But many Iraqis believe Washington
often acts of its own accord. 
The U.S. military has repeatedly said that it conducts air strikes on
Falluja only when it has specific intelligence and says that it only
makes "precision strikes" on those targets. 
After Friday's attack, hospital officials said at least seven
civilians were killed and 13 wounded. Reuters television pictures
showed Iraqis digging through mounds of rubble and twisted metal
hoping to find survivors. 
At one point, a child no older than 10 was pulled alive from under a
pile of bricks and dust. 
U.S. military officials have suggested that insurgents have pressured
doctors into exaggerating casualty tolls and have cast doubt on
television footage, indicating that scenes after air strikes may have
been staged. 
Reuters television footage of the destruction after Friday night's
strike showed panicked men using their bare hands to dig out bodies.
One man lay face down, covered by a heavy slab of cement over his
waist and legs. 
Such scenes are familiar to the people of Falluja, who say they have
seen no evidence backing U.S. assertions that insurgents and foreign
fighters were operating from houses that are flattened by U.S.
warplanes. 
Amid the screams and groans of children having their wounds stitched
at a Falluja hospital Saturday, a young girl pulled dead from the
rubble lay on thin mat on the floor. 
Allawi's U.S.-backed government is scrambling to regain control of
several rebel-held cities before elections are due in January, and put
an end to suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Iraqi police
and civilians. 
As part of that campaign, U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an offensive
against the rebel stronghold of Samarra early on Friday, killing more
than 100 insurgents in fierce fighting. 
The U.S. military has said the air raids on Falluja have killed scores
of militants loyal to Zarqawi, who's group Washington says is allied
to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites). It recently said as many as 100
of Zarqawi's followers had been killed in aerial bombardments and
other strikes. 

 of a small boy in his arms.
"a man" = "Iraqis" :)
-Stefano