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3 children among 5 of an Iraqi family killed by GIs

AGENCIES, Baquba/Baghdad
Five members of an Iraqi family, three of them children, were shot dead yesterday when US forces opened fire on their car outside a military base northcast of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.
Three other family members were wounded in die incident, which took place near Baquba at around 0630 am (0330 GMT) as diey were returning from a funeral, the sources said.
Ahmed Kamel al-Sawamara, a 22-ycar-old student who was driving die car but escaped serious injury, said that he suddenly saw US military vehicles just ahead of him.
"The soldiers started shooting at us from all over. I slowed down and pulled off the road, but they continued firing," he told reporters.
"I saw my family killed, one after the other, and then the car caught fire. I dragged tiieirbodiesout."
Two men and three children, aged one, two and three, were killed, and two women and a child were wounded, Iraqi police said.
A US military spokesman con-finned the shooting, but put the toll at three dead and two wounded.
US troops had set up a makeshift roadblock to allow some military vehicles to turn off a highway into a base when the civilian car approached, said Major Steven Warren.
"The Iraqi car wouldn't slow down and warning shots were fired," hesaid.
The car failed to stop and came under machine-gun fire, Warren added. Medics travelling with the patrol immediately gave first aid after the incident.
US forces, who regularly face attack by suicide car bombers trying to ram their vehicles before setting off their explosives, have repeatedly been involved in shooting incidents in which civilians have been killed my mistake.
US patrols carry warning signs telling people to keep at a distance and drive down the middle of highways forcing oncoming traffic offtheroad.
Earlier US forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaeda members died in a gunfight some by their own hand to avoid capture. The White House said Sunday that it was "highly unlikely" that the terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead.
Insurgents, meanwhile, killed an American soldier and a Marine in separate attacks over the weekend, and a British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the south.
On Saturday, police Brig. Gen. Said Ahmed al-Jubouri said the raid was launched after a tip that top al-Qaeda operatives, possibly including al-Zarqawi, were in the house in the northeastern part of the city.
During the intense gunbattle that followed, three insurgents detonated explosives and killed themselves to avoid capture, Iraqi officials said. Eleven Americans were wounded, the US military said. Such intense resistance often suggests an attempt to defend a high-value target.
But Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman, said reports of al-Zarqawi's death were "highly unlikely and not credible."
American soldiers controlled the site Sunday, and residents said helicopters flew over the area throughout the day. Some residents said the tight security was reminiscent of the July 2003 operation in which Saddam
Hussein's sons, Odai and Qusai, were killed in Mosul. Eyewitnesses said the military left the area early Monday.
The elusive al-Zarqawi has narrowly escaped capture in the past. US forces said they nearly caught him in a February 2005 raid that recovered his computer.
In May, the group said he was wounded in fighting and was taken out of the country for treatment. Within days, it reported he had returned though there was never any independent confirmation that he was wounded.
The US soldier killed Sunday near the capital was assigned to the Army's Task Force Baghdad and was hit by small arms fire, the military said. The Marine, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, died of wounds suffered the day before in Karmah, a village outside Fallujah to the west of the capital.
(AFP, AP)