US Air Force accused of attacking ambulance

US warplanes pounded a suspected hideout of al-Qaida-linked militants in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah today, killing at least 20 people and wounding 29.

An ambulance rushing from the area of the blasts was hit by a shell, killing the driver, a paramedic and five patients inside the vehicle, said a hospital official, Hamid Salaman