US forces carried out an air strike on the city of Falluja today that local residents said wounded at least five people.
The US military claimed it was targeting a group of suspected insurgents linked to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A US military spokesperson said: "The anti-Iraqi forces were struck while in the courtyard of a house; the house was left intact."
The statement did not say if anyone was killed in the operation, but residents of the area said at least five people were wounded, two of them children.
"We were sleeping, women and children. They hit us but we don't know why," said an old woman dressed in traditional black clothes as she sifted through the wreckage.
"The Americans are lying. Let them come and search us, not hit us with bombs."
Over the past month, the U.S. military has carried out seven strikes against suspected safe houses in southwestern Falluja believed to have been used by Zarqawi or his supporters. Around 40 people have been killed in the attacks.