Iraq to reopen probe of deadly Ishaqi raid
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Iraq's government will reopen an investigation into a 2006 raid in which U.S. forces killed 11 Iraqis, including women and children, a spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Friday.
The new probe comes after documents surfaced in a WikiLeaks cache that raise fresh doubts on the Pentagon's version of events.
Iraqis in the town of Ishaqi have long claimed that U.S. military forces executed 11 people there -- including five women and children -- and then hid the crime by directing an air strike to the area, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.
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