The Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre[1][2] (Arabic: مجزرة حفلة عرس مكر الذيب, romanized: Majzarat haflat eurs Makr Alldhiyb) refers to the U.S. military's attack on a wedding party in Mukaradeeb, a small village in Anbar Province, Iraq near the border with Syria, on 19 May 2004.

[citation needed] Witnesses report that the American bombing started at 3:00 AM.

Local accounts state that 42 people, including 11 women and 14 children,[1] were killed during the incident.

[4] Following the attack, U.S. officials stated that the location was a "suspected foreign fighter safe house."

USMC Major General James Mattis asserted that even the idea of a wedding was implausible, "How many people go to the middle of the desert ... to hold a wedding 80 miles (130km) from the nearest civilization?

The video shows a series of scenes of a wedding celebration, and footage from the following day shows fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around a destroyed tent.