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Fri 03 Mar 2003US command distances itself from Baghdad market killings
CENTRALCOMMAND: A spokesman for US Central Command has claimed that the deaths of at least 15 people in a Baghdad marketplace this week could have been caused by an Iraqi missile, which might have been fired deliberately. He said US missiles were launched on Baghdad at the time but claimed they were "in a different area", writes Deaglán de Bréadún in Doha
The comments of Brig Gen Vincent Brooks yesterday differed significantly from the statement issued by US Central Command the previous night headed: "Coalition forces strike missile-launchers in Baghdad; civilian damage possible".
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