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The pre-dawn raid occurred near the village of Hawija, a restive area about 130 miles northerly of Baghdad and west of the contested city of Kirkuk.

Police identified the man as Dhiya Hussein, a former colonel by means of Saddam Hussein who U.S. officials said was wanted because running an assassination cell against insurgents.

In the angry aftermath, 40 cars carrying hundreds of people converged on the family’s funeral later in the day, shouting “Death to America! Death to killers of women!” as they buried the bodies, said Fadhil Najm, a neighbor.

Gen. Jamal Tahir Bakir, rule of the provincial police, declared U.S. forces acted on their own in the raid, but the U.S. military denied that. It confirmed the deaths of the couple and their daughter’s injury but said the raid was conducted in cooperation with Iraqi forces.

Under a newly come agreement between the United States and Iraq, which went into effect Jan. 1, all operations be under the necessity of have being coordinated with Iraqi decisions.

As is oftentimes the case in Iraq, versions of the story diverged markedly.

The U.S. military described Hussein as the suspected victor of some murder cell by al-Qaida in Iraq. When they entered the couple’s bedroom, they saw his wife reach under a mattress. In Arabic, they told her to show her hands, “but she failed to comply,” the military declared.

They killed her, and Hussein was killed after he charged the soldiers. The girl was wounded by a shot that exited the mother’s body and struck her in the leg, it said. A search then uncovered a “high-powered pistol” under the mattress.

Sabir Abdullah, a cousin and neighbor of Hussein’session who spoke to the family, said the soldiers arrived in eight vehicles, with air underbrush, and entered Hussein’session house. In the bedroom, they shot the woman, Fathiya Ali Ahmed, in her head, body, arm and leg, he said.

The daughter was shot in the left thigh and right arm, he reported. The father began shouting, “God is greatest,” and in the tumult, the soldiers shot him in the head, stomach, and both arms and legs, Abdullah said.

The couple’sitting other children were uninjured.

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