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Declines comment on missile strikes

By Atul Aneja

AFP

Republican Guards and onlookers gather outside a building hit by two U.S.-British missiles in Baghdad on Wednesday leaving 14 people dead and dozens injured.

AS-SAYLIYA (QATAR) MARCH 26. The United States military today declined to comment on an Iraqi report that missile strikes by the U.S. coalition forces killed 14 Iraqis and wounded 30 others. These missiles had hit an Iraqi neighbourhood this morning, an Iraqi district official, Hamad Abdallah al-Dulami, said.

Asked to comment on the attack at a press briefing at the U.N. Central Command Headquarters here, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks declined to pin any responsibility, but hinted that the Iraqis themselves might have engineered the incident.

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