Shelling at al-Abbasiya

Federal News Radio has an AP photo by Hameed Rasheed showing a wrecked station building. The caption says Two people look through the ruins of a damaged train station building after U.S. warplanes and helicopters shelled al-Abbasiya railway, near Samarra 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, on this Monday, June 4, 2007.

Marine Corps Times has a little more information: Two Iraqi men stand in the ruins of a building after a U.S. air strike on the al-Abbasiya railway, about 60 miles north of Baghdad on June 4. The American warplanes and helicopters shelled al-Abbasiya railway, and later the land forces attacked the station, killing four people including two women and detaining 20 people, police said.

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