Iraq: Killing kids - it's what they're good at

alertnet: The U.S. military said U.S.-led forces killed seven militants with links to senior al Qaeda leaders in a raid on Monday near the area where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last week.

"Coalition forces received enemy machinegun fire from a rooftop upon arriving at the objective...," said a statement.

"Following the assault, coalition troops discovered two children had been killed. One child was wounded and evacuated for treatment," it added.

A senior U.S. military spokesman, Major General William Caldwell, said the gunmen had the children with them on a roof and described the deaths, which included a six-month-old boy and another child, as "extremely unfortunate". Link

db: I don't believe a word of that explanation. The US military has not earned the right to be taken seriously when reporting 'their side of the story'.