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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (555)	3/31/2003 5:22:08 PM
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U.S. Forces Kill Seven Iraqi Women, Kids - today*** customwire.ap.org U.S. Forces Kill Seven Iraqi Women, Kids By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. troops killed seven Iraqi women and children at a checkpoint Monday when the Iraqis' van would not stop as ordered, U.S. Central Command said. Two other civilians were wounded in the incident at a U.S. Army checkpoint on a highway near Najaf in southern Iraq, according to a Pentagon official and a Central Command statement. The military is investigating, the statement said. The dead and wounded were among 13 women and children in a van that approached the checkpoint but did not stop, Central Command said. Soldiers fired warning shots and then shot into the vehicle's engine, neither of which stopped it, the statement said.

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