CENTCOM Responds

Curt at Flopping Aces received a response to the story I linked which claimed US forces killed a number of innocent civilians sitting in their homes.

AP SAMEER N. YACOUB come on down! He wrote the story which, interestingly enough, the Chicago Tribune seems to have altered from this afternoon without a correction. It no longer carries that part of the AP report. The Houston Chronicle still has the original version with the FALSE AP report of US soldiers targeting innocent Iraqis.

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

Sir -

Reference the clarification requested on the story by AP below.

Anti-Iraqi Forces opened fire, targeting civilians in the al-Husseiniya area. 10 civilians were killed and six wounded at 11 p.m. Nov. 26. The incident was reported by the Iraqi Police through the Joint National Operations Center (a civilian matter relayed to the Coalition for tracking purposes). There was no Coalition involvement.

v/r

Capt. XXX XXXXX XXXXX (USAF)

Multi-National Corps - Iraq
Joint Operations Center
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