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05/19/2004:

"Iraqis slain as 'US bombs wedding'"

US occupation forces have reportedly killed at least 40 Iraqi civilians in an air raid that targeted the village of Makr al-Dib on the Syrian border.

Quoting witnesses and broadcasting images of dozens of shrouded bodies lined up on a dirt road on Wednesday, al-Arabiya television said warplanes had blasted dozens of people who were celebrating a wedding. "US planes dropped more than 100 bombs on us," an unidentified man who said he was from the village said on al-Arabiya.

"They hit two homes where the wedding was being held and then they levelled the whole village. No bullets were fired by us, nothing was happening," he added.

The Dubai-based network also showed those who survived digging graves for the numerous men, women and children that died in the raid. english.aljazeera.net