The Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre refers to the U.S. military‘s attack on a wedding party in Mukaradeeb, a small village in Anbar Province, Iraq near the border with Syria, on 19 May 2004. The attack killed 42 civilians and wounded many others. The U.S. military denied that a wedding had been hit, claiming the location was a legitimate military target and that insurgents had been killed. U.S. military generals refused to apologize for the massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massacre
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