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By Bassem Mroue
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S.
warplanes unleashed devastat
ing airstrikes on a suspected
hideout where operatives from
an al-Qaida-linked group were
meeting Monday, and hospital
officials said 20 people died.
One strike hit an ambulance
as it sped away with wounded,
a hospital official said; the U.S.
military said innocent lives
were spared.
Also Monday, a video posted
on a Web site in the name of the
militants — led by Jordanian-
born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zar-
qawi — purportedly showed the
beheading of a kidnapped Turk
ish truck driver. Al-Zarqawi is
blamed for a string of terror at
tacks in Iraq, including bomb
ings and the slayings of other
hostages. Washington has a $10
million bounty on his head.
The U.S. military said jets car
ried out the strike on a site in Fal
lujah, where several members of
a group led by al-Zarqawi were
meeting. It was at least the fifth
airstrike in the past week on the
city, indicating the high priority,
U.S. officials place on destroy
ing al-Zarqawi’s group.
Warplanes hit the city west
of Baghdad after “intelligence
sources reported the presence
of several al-Zarqawi opera
tives who have been respon
sible for numerous terrorist
attacks against Iraqi civilians,
Iraqi Security Forces and mul
tinational forces,” the military
said in a statement.
“Intelligence reports indi
cated that only Zarqawi opera
tives and associates were at the
meeting location at the time of
the strike,” the statement said.
“Based on analysis of these re
ports, Iraqi Security Forces and
multinational forces effectively
and accurately targeted these ter
rorists while protecting the lives
of innocent civilians.”
Iraqi witnesses said a mar
ket. homes and an ambulance
Airstrikes target
terror group
U.S. airstrikes in
Fallujah on Monday
came a day after a
surge in violence
killed 78 people and
wounded about
200 across Iraq. /
Dahuk
Province
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an assassination attempt
when a roadside bomb
went off as his car was
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militant hideout, killing
at least 20 people, X,/
wounding 29, including
seven in an ambulance.
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up a police station in Latifiyah on
Sunday, after forcing officers out.
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were hit.
“We did not hit a market
place,” said Maj. Jay Antonel-
li in a statement, but there was
no immediate comment on the
accusation that an ambulance
was hit.
The military said reports in
dicated the strikes had achieved
their aim, but did not name the
operatives. “This strike further
erodes the capability of the Zar
qawi network and increases safe
ty and security throughout Iraq,”
the military statement said.
The airstrike, which wrecked
houses and hurled furniture into
trees, sent a huge brown cloud
over the residential al-Shurta
neighborhood.
Witnesses said one explosion
went off in a market as sell
ers were setting up their stalls,
wounding several people and
shattering windows. An ambu
lance was struck while rushing
from the area, killing the para
medic driver and five wounded
patients, hospital official Hamid
Salaman said.
At least 20 people were
AP
killed and 29 wounded in the
airstrike, said Dr. Ahmad Taher
of the Fallujah General Hospi
tal. Women and children were
among the dead.
The hospital was over
whelmed with the wounded, its
white sheets soiled with blood.
One woman who went to the
hospital hysterically pulled at
her hair. “I lost my son,” she
screamed between sobs. “I wish
it were me.”
U.S. forces pulled out of Fal
lujah in April after ending a
three-week siege that left hun
dreds dead. The U.S. Marines
have not patrolled inside Fallu
jah since then and Sunni Muslim
insurgents have strengthened
their hold on the city.
A site known for posting
the militant group’s messages,
meanwhile, released the tape of
the Turkish hostage’s slaying
digitally dated Aug. 17. The au
thenticity of thb tape could not
be verified, but it appeared on
a Web site known for carrying
statements from al-Zarqawi’s
group, Tawhid and Jihad.
Pressure to end disparities
in newborn disease testing
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WASHINGTON — Gracie
Clay’s mother says her child
could still be alive had she
been born in, say, Mississippi
instead of Georgia: Which state
you live in determines whether
your newborn is tested for sev
eral dozen rare but devastating
inherited diseases.
Many of these illnesses, like
the one that killed 19-month-
old Gracie last February, can be
treated easily if parents know in
time. Testing requires a single
drop of blood. But many states
mandate newborn testing for
only a fraction of the diseases.
Next week, a government ad
visory committee is expected to
move to end the geographic dis
parity, as it debates whether ev
ery state should test every new
born for 30 genetic illnesses.
“We should not be having ba
bies die because of not having
a test that’s relatively simple,”
says Dr. R. Rodney Howell, a
University of Miami pediatrician
who chairs the panel that advises
Health and Human Services Sec
retary Tommy Thompson.
The influential March of
Dimes, which has a seat on that
advisory panel, isn’t waiting.
Last week it decided to increase
its own newborn testing recom
mendations from nine diseases
to 30, persuaded by a long-
awaited study from leading ge
neticists that forms the crux of
next week’s debate.
That study, soon to be pub
lished in a medical journal, “will
put a lot of pressure on states,”
predicted March of Dimes’ med
ical director, Dr. Nancy Green.
“Regardless of what the advisory
committee does ... this is going
to irrevocably change newborn
screening in the U.S.”
Meanwhile, what’s the advice
for expectant parents? Check
what tests your state requires
now. If it’s fewer than 30, “we
do have to suggest that the fam
ily at least consider a private
screening lab,” Green says. Ex
tra testing costs $25 to $100, de
pending on the lab.
“If I’d just known about new
born screening,” laments Molly
Clay of Atlanta. Although a
public health worker, she didn’t
learn until Gracie died that Geor
gia tested for eight diseases, but
not her daughter’s. The state is
adding that one to its list.
“The state you live in decides
the fate of your child if you’re
not aware,” says Clay, who en
courages parents to seek that
supplemental testing.
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