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24-05-04, 09:21
A videotape has been broadcast which purports to show before-and-after footage of a wedding which Iraqis say the US attacked, killing about 40.
The film, broadcast by Associated Press Television News, knits together a home movie of a wedding and APTN video of the aftermath of Wednesday's attack.
Some victims and survivors of the air strike appear to be present in the footage of the wedding celebrations.
The US has insisted its target was not a wedding but foreign fighters.
It says that its soldiers were responding to fire and there was no evidence of a wedding.
The incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday at the village of Makr al-Deeb, in desert near the Syrian border.
Associated Press has stressed that it cannot confirm the authenticity of the video of the wedding celebrations.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3741223.stm)
The film, broadcast by Associated Press Television News, knits together a home movie of a wedding and APTN video of the aftermath of Wednesday's attack.
Some victims and survivors of the air strike appear to be present in the footage of the wedding celebrations.
The US has insisted its target was not a wedding but foreign fighters.
It says that its soldiers were responding to fire and there was no evidence of a wedding.
The incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday at the village of Makr al-Deeb, in desert near the Syrian border.
Associated Press has stressed that it cannot confirm the authenticity of the video of the wedding celebrations.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3741223.stm)