BBC NEWS | Middle East | US bombards Iraq mosque complex
A US air strike has killed as many as 40 people inside a mosque compound during heavy fighting in the Sunni Muslim Iraqi town of Falluja.
A US Marine colonel said the strike targeted insurgents who had fired on US troops from inside the mosque.
Maj Gen James Mattis, 1st Marine Division commander, defended the attack.
“If they barricade themselves inside a mosque, we are not going to care about the mosque any more than they do,” said Gen Mattis, quoted by the AFP news agency.
Gee, do you think maybe they want troops to attack the mosque? How dumb can we get?