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US strike against "Zarqawi safe house" BAGHDAD, Thursday (Reuters) U.S. forces attacked and destroyed what they said was a "safe house" belonging to the Jordanian militant Washington views as its top guerrilla target in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The assault, which witnesses in the restive city of Falluja said wrecked the house and killed four people, was launched hours before ex-president Saddam Hussein was due to appear before an Iraqi court on Thursday for formal arraignment. "On June the 30th, multinational forces conducted another strike on a known Zarqawi network safehouse in southwest Falluja based on multi-confirmations of Iraqi and multinational intelligence," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the U.S. military, said in a statement. There was no indication Zarqawi, who has claimed responsibility for several suicide attacks and the beheadings of an American and a South Korean hostage, was in the building. Witnesses said four bodies had been pulled from the house in a southwest suburb of the city after a warplane fired a missile at it. Residents were looking for survivors. |
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