Day of bloodshed, day of outrage in Mideast

AMERICAN and Israeli forces killed more than 60 men, women and children in separate attacks yesterday, provoking international outrage.

Forty-one people, many of them young children, were killed when a US helicopter attacked a wedding party in western Iraq, Iraqi officials said last night.

News of the killings almost eclipsed that of the first US soldier to be imprisoned for torturing and abusing Iraqi prisoners.