By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
US troops backed by an airstrike killed seven Iraqis, including three women, during a raid Friday targeting al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said.
Iraqi officials and witnesses gave a conflicting account, saying those killed were civilians from a poor family that had been displaced from Baghdad during sectarian violence.
The US troops were acting on tips that a man believed to be the leader of a bombing network was in Adwar, a Sunni town 70 miles north of Baghdad.
Ground forces surrounded a house and called for those inside to surrender but opened fire after an armed man appeared in the doorway, killing the main suspect, the military said.
A US airstrike was then called in, killing three other suspected insurgents and three women, the military said, adding that an Iraqi child was pulled from the rubble and taken to a US base for medical treatment.
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