"The evil powers of the American occupation forces have targeted innocents in Sadr city this morning. They fired bombs at houses that killed innocent women and children," Falah Hassan Shanshal, a lawmaker with the al-Sadr bloc that controls 30 seats in the 275-seat parliament, said in an interview with the government's al-Iraqiya television station.

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Those claims could not be verified and footage of bodies taken to a local morgue were exclusively of men.