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The Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre[1][2] ({{lang-ar|مجزرة حفلة عرس مقر الديب}}) refers to the U.S. shooting and bombing of a wedding party in Mukaradeeb, a small village in Iraq near the border with Syria, on 19 May 2004. 42 civilians were killed. IncidentThe wedding united members of the Rakat and Sabah families: Ashad Rakat was the groom and Rutba, his bride. Witnesses report that the American bombing started at 3 am. Local accounts state that 42 people, including 11 women and 14 children,[1] were killed during the incident. Among the known dead were Iraqi musicians Hussein al-Ali and his brother Mohaned al-Ali. Iraqi officials report 13 children were among the dead. 27 members of the extended Rakat family were killed.[4] U.S. officials stated that the location was a "suspected foreign fighter safe house."[1] ReactionThe U.S. military took the stance that the location was a legitimate target. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the coalition deputy chief of staff for U.S. operations in Iraq: "We took ground fire and we returned fire. We estimate that around 40 were killed. But we operated within our rules of engagement."[1] U.S. fire included both bullets and bombs, leaving behind craters.[3] In the aftermath, Kimmitt said, "There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration. There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too." USMC Major General James Mattis asserted that even the idea of a wedding was implausible, "How many people go to the middle of the desert ... to hold a wedding 80 miles (130km) from the nearest civilization? These were more than two dozen military-age males. Let's not be naive." The Rakats and the Sabahs were residents of Mukaradeeb.[1] Mattis later added that it had taken him 30 seconds to deliberate on bombing the location.[4] Video footage obtained by the Associated Press contradicts this. The video shows a series of scenes of a wedding celebration, and footage from the following day shows fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around a destroyed tent.[3][5] See also
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite news | last = McCarthy | first = Rory | title = Wedding party massacre |work=The Guardian |location=UK | accessdate =3 September 2011 | date = 20 May 2004 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/20/iraq.rorymccarthy }} 2. ^{{Cite book | publisher = Columbia University Press | isbn = 978-0-231-14457-5 | last = Cavarero | first = Adriana | title = Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence | date = 2 January 2011 | pages = 1–2 }} 3. ^1 2 AP, Iraq Wedding-Party Video Backs Survivors' Claims," 24 May 2004 4. ^{{cite book |authorlink=Bing West |first=West |last=Bing |title=The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq| publisher = Random House | year = 2008 | location = New York, NY |isbn=978-1-4000-6701-5}}, p. 245 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/25/usa.iraq7|title=Wedding party video casts doubt on American version of attack that killed 42|last=McCartyh|first=Rory|publisher=The Guardian|date=2004-05-25|accessdate=2013-01-11}} External links
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