BBC carrying this claim of no deaths of civilian non-combatants in mosque attack, where two 500-pound bombs were dropped from a jet fighter plane:
Iraqi witnesses say about 40 Iraqis were killed in the strike, but US Central Command said only one “anti-coalition force member” had died and there were no civilian casualties.
Here’s what the Agence France-Presse reports, they are on the scene with the U.S. Marines in the Fallujah battle:
Despite earlier indicating that up to 40 suspected insurgents were killed in the air strike, a marine officer was later forced to admit that US forces had failed to find any bodies in the mosque.
“When we hit that building I thought we had killed all the bad guys, but when we went in they didn’t find any bad guys in the building,” Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne told AFP.
Instead, he speculated that the insurgents may have fled after a Cobra helicopter gunship fired a Hellfire missile at the mosque, and before an aircraft dropped laser-guided precision bombs.
This is what they did find according to the Washington Post:
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