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Three killed, 10 wounded in US strike on militant's suspected hide out

The second US “precision” strike in four days on a suspected safe house of Al-Qaeda terror suspect Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi killed three people and wounded 10 others in the flashpoint western Iraqi city of Fallujah. “We received three dead and 10 wounded,” said a doctor at Fallujah general hospital where the casualties were taken. Witnesses said US warplanes fired missiles in the attack that Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt confirmed the coalition had sought to raze a hideout of Zarqawi, the alleged mastermind of much of the violence sweeping Iraq. “This evening, coalition forces conducted another strike on a known Zarqawi network safehouse in south central Fallujah, based on multiple confirmations of actionable intelligence,” Kimmitt said in a statement. Full Story