In eastern Baghdad, local witnesses have reported U.S. warplanes fired shells and flares on houses in a largely Shiite neighborhood. Four houses were burned in the attack. Residents also said U.S. forces raided an office of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and shot dead four men. One eyewitness accused the U.S. troops of attacking a Shiite mosque.

Iraqi eyewitness: “They (U.S. troops) gathered in front of the mosque. People were praying when the U.S. soldiers opened fire on them. Some fell down, others were arrested, and many were killed. The reason was unknown.”