CNN REPORT: US DENIES BOMBING ATTACKS KILLED IRAQI CHILDREN

A series of US air attacks on Sadr City has killed eight Iraqi civlians, including two children. The US military is denying the air attacks were aimed at Iraqi civilians in Sadr City, however the Iraqi Interior Ministry says the attacks resulted in the deaths of eight cvilians and the wounding of 28.

All across Iraq on Saturday there were signs the violence is escalating as car bombs and killings hit virtually evey province in Iraq.

President Bush, General Petraeus and the Bush administration propaganda branch, FOX NEWS, continue to claim all is calm in Iraq, but stories from a number of independent news sources prove just the opposite is the truth.


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U.S. spokesman denies airstrikes, major action in Baghdad slum overnight
Sadr City fighting kills eight, including two children, official says; 28 wounded
Saturday morning attacks in Baghdad, Tikrit, Diyala province

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Violence overnight in Baghdad's Sadr City killed eight people -- including two children -- and wounded 28, Iraqi officials said, and insurgent attacks across Iraq killed six people and wounded 26.

U.S. military denies involvement in Sadr City deaths
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A U.S. military spokesman denied an Interior Ministry official's report that airstrikes and clashes involving U.S. forces caused the casualties in Sadr City.
"There were no 'fierce' clashes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. involving U.S. forces or those Iraqi security forces we are partnered with," said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad. "So we do not know who killed those women and children."

U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling Shiite militiamen in Sadr City for a month.
Saturday morning saw a wave of violence across multiple locations in Iraq.

Three Iraqi soldiers were hurt when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in northeastern Baghdad's Sleikh neighborhood, an Interior Ministry official said.

Gunmen in a car opened fire 30 minutes later on traffic police in central Baghdad's al-Wathiq square, wounding five people, the official said.

Police said a roadside bomb blast wounded eight people, including four police officers in central Tikrit, a major Sunni city in Salaheddin province about 100 miles north of Baghdad.

In Diyala province north of Baghdad, three Iraqi soldiers died when a roadside bomb struck their patrol about about three miles east of Baquba, the Interior Ministry official said.

A roadside bomb explosion near a house in central Baquba's al-Hay neighborhood wounded two Iraqi civilians, the official said.

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