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Iraq
Iraqi Insurgents Gun Down Five Teachers
2005-09-27
Gunmen dressed as policemen shot dead five Shiite teachers and a driver in their school south of Baghdad yesterday, and a suicide bomber killed 10 people when he rammed a bus full of Oil Ministry employees. The attacks came as sectarian violence between Iraq’s main communities surges ahead of an Oct. 15 referendum on a controversial new constitution. Teachers have so far been largely spared from the violence. “These men were terrorists in police uniform,” a spokesman for Babel police told Reuters after the teachers were killed in the town of Iskandariya. He said the gunmen arrived at the school in two civilian cars, led the teachers and the school driver to a part of the school where no children were present, and shot them.

Earlier, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus carrying Oil Ministry employees as it passed a police academy in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 30, police and witnesses said. “We heard the blast. They died,” said a dazed survivor, who stood in a hospital as victims of the blast were wheeled in on stretchers. He told Reuters Television the bus was carrying employees of a state oil exploration company. Oil is the main revenue earner for Iraq’s battered economy, and energy infrastructure and staff are frequently attacked by insurgents. It was not immediately clear whether the bomber was targeting police or the Oil Ministry. Police were not able to say how many of the dead and wounded were police and how many were from the ministry. Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr Uloum told reporters he believed the bomber had aimed the attack at his staff. “Unfortunately these terrorist operations continue to target innocents,” he said.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Hey I'm sure the Minutemen had to shoot teachers in the 1770s as well.

It's just that THEY don't want you to know about it. And I think we all know who THEY are.
Posted by: Michael Moore (down to 350 lbs.)   2005-09-27 10:19  

#1  Michael Moore's and A.N.S.W.E.R's Freedom Fighters[tm] at their finest. Think the NEA will protest? Nah, me neither.
Posted by: Elmereng Pheating4146   2005-09-27 09:23  

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