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Just hours earlier, U.S. forces made a similar blunder, killing six other children along with two adults, members of a village family in neighboring Paktia province. That raid was supposed to take out a powerful clergyman named Mullah Jalani, who was accused by the Pentagon of operating training camps for mujahedin, hiding a sizable arsenal inside his stockade and firing at U.S. troops with what officials call a "crew-served machine gun." But many question why Jalani had been targeted. Just two days before, he had been drinking tea and cracking jokes with the pro-U.S. governor...
...successful American raid followed a Wednesday announcement by the Iraqi Governing Council—replete with American acquiescence, according to the State Department—that a special tribunal composed solely of Iraqi jurists would try members of the former government and those complicit in its crimes. Thoroughly Iraqi, the tribunal departs from the three recent UN-sponsored war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone and the former Yugoslavia...
...Dawr, the town in which the property is located, is the home village of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, number six on the most wanted list of Iraqi political and military officials. Some soldiers on the raid, those who weren't privy to the real target, thought al-Douri might be their quarry. But select officers of the Tikrit-based 4th Infantry Division knew otherwise, and they felt that intelligence collected from Iraqis detained over the past few weeks would yield what they referred to as "H.V.T. 1," or high value target number...
...families. He was brought to Tikrit for questioning the morning after his arrest, and before 11 a.m., had provided enough actionable intelligence that Lt. Col. James B. Hickey, the commander of the 4th I.D.'s First Brigade, put his subordinate commanders on alert and began planning that night's raid. "We thought that night that there was a good chance that we would be successful," he said...
...original targets of the raid were two nearby farmhouses. Initial searches turned up nothing, but then, with the area already cordoned off, Special Forces soldiers began searching other houses in the area, particularly those amidst the trees on the banks of the Tigris River. They did an initial inspection of three houses, then returned to each for a closer look, keeping in mind a tip that Saddam might be hiding in an underground bunker. On the second time through the property where he was found, perhaps five strides inside the front gate, a soldier kicked away some dirt from...