Did Washington Lie About What Happened in Samarra?

U.S. officials said that up to 54 Iraqi guerillas were killed in a
battle and 16 wounded Sunday in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra,
but Iraqis say the local hospital received the bodies of only eight
dead civilians as well as 60 others wounded. We go to Iraq to speak
with Newsday's Mohamad Bazzi. Widely differing accounts are emerging
over a battle Sunday between U.S. troops and Iraqi resistance fighters
in the northern Iraqi town of Samarra.

The U.S. Army said that either 46 or 54 guerillas were killed in the
clashes and another 16 wounded in what it described as the bloodiest
fire-fight since the official end of the war. Brigadier General Mark
Kimmitt later admitted that the U.S. figures are only estimates and
that U.S. forces had not recovered a single body from the scene.

Iraqi accounts differ sharply. The director of the local hospitals
says they received the bodies of only eight civilians, including those
of a woman and child as well as 60 others wounded. U.S. military
officials denied their forces had overreacted and fired
indiscriminately, as charged by senior police, hospital and municipal
officials in the Samarra.

    * Mohamad Bazzi, Newsday correspondent reporting from Baghdad.

Did the U.S Lie About What Happened in Samarra?

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