Iraq: US Atrocity Or Sunni Propoganda?

Today's Iraq news. Along with Saddam's grandstanding nonsense at his trial, the failure of Iraqi government figures to form an actual government and Iraqi Shia clerics saying the Shia people are beginning not to listen to their pleas for peace and calm comes something a bit more directly worrying...

Here's the Reuters report.

Here's the U.S. military's version:

"Troops were engaged by enemy fire as they approached the building," U.S. spokesman Major Tim Keefe said. "Coalition Forces returned fire utilising both air and ground assets.

"There was one enemy killed. Two women and one child were also killed in the firefight. The building ... (was) destroyed."

Keefe said the al Qaeda suspect had been captured.

And here's the version from the local Iraqi police and officials:

Police and witnesses said 11 members of one family were killed in a U.S. raid overnight in Ishaqi, a town in Saddam's home province north of Baghdad.

...A senior Iraqi police officer said autopsies on the bodies, which included five children, showed each had been shot in the head. Community leaders said they were outraged.

Television footage showed the bodies of five children, two men and four women in the Tikrit morgue. One infant had a gaping head wound. All the children seemed younger than school age.

...Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof and shot the 11 occupants. Colonel Farouq Hussein, said autopsies found all had been shot in the head.

Their hands were bound and they were dumped in one room before the house was destroyed, Hussein said.

"It's a clear and perfect crime without any doubt," he said.

Ishaqi town administrator Rasheed Shather said. "We want the Americans to give us an explanation for this horrible crime."

Obviously two very different and conflicting accounts of what may be an horrific atrocity or may be propaganda from pro-insurgency official figures. What do you think?