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Police investigators in Salahaddin Province have accused American troops of executing 11 civilians, including several children, during a raid last Wednesday on a house in Ishaqi, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said Monday. According to the investigators, the Americans had lined up the civilians and shot them, then killed livestock and destroyed the house, the official said.

A local police commander in Ishaqi told Knight-Ridder Newspapers that an autopsy had detected bullet wounds in all the victims' heads.

The American military admitted at the time that it had demolished the house using a ground attack and airstrikes, but only after insurgents began firing from the building. Three civilians - two women and a child - and one insurgent were killed in the attack, American officials said, and another insurgent was captured.

New York Times

If one were into conspiracies, this sort of thing when taken with other things like this might lead you suspect that the US didn't really want to leave Iraq at all. Luckily I don't believe in conspiracies, so I don't need to waste time wondering what sorts of reasons the US would have for wanting to stay. Not that I would have to waste that much time figuring it out, were I to want to.