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Iraq plans new inquiry into ’06 U.S. shootings

BAGHDAD — Iraqi government officials say they will investigate newly surfaced allegations that U.S. soldiers shot women and children then tried to cover it up with an airstrike during a 2006 hunt for insurgents.

An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ali Al-Moussawi, said Friday the government will revive its stalled probe now that new information about the March 15, 2006, raid has come to light.

The Pentagon cleared the troops of wrongdoing within three months of the raid.

But a document by a U.N. inspector a few weeks after the raid cites evidence that 10 people were killed execution-style.

The document is part of a trove of confidential U.S. government documents — many of them classified — released by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.