Baghdad - Sunni Muslim clerics in their Friday sermons condemned the United States military's latest air strike against the rebel city of Fallujah as part of its "scorched earth" policy in Iraq.
"Fallujah is being hit every day under the guise of striking Zarqawi, and residents take out a two-year-old child from under the rubble, is this Zarqawi?" said Sheikh Abdul Ghafur al-Samarrai in a fiery sermon at Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque.
"The Americans are using (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon's scorched earth and collective punishment policy."
Twelve people were killed 16 wounded, including a bride at a wedding party, when US warplanes hit early Friday what the military said was a suspected meeting place in Fallujah of operatives of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq.
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Jordanian-born Zarqawi is accused of links to the al-Qaeda terror network.
The Iraqi government has been in talks with a delegation of Fallujah community and religious leaders in an effort for them to exert their influence over some elements in the insurgency in the city to convince them to lay down their weapons.
"Some members of the delegation say the talks are going well and then we have an operation that kills and wounds people," said Sheikh Ahmed Hassan al-Samarrai during a sermon at Baghdad's Abu Hanifa mosque.
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