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| Iraq |
| 14 Kidnapped Men Found Dead North of Baghdad |
| 2014-01-17 |
| [An Nahar] The bodies of 14 men, kidnapped earlier Thursday by bully boyz dressed in army uniforms, were found rubbed out in an orchard north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , security officials said. The victims, taken from their homes in the predominantly Sunni Arab town of Mishahda, had all suffered gunshots to the head and chest, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . Among them were at least five members of one family. The killings come amid a protracted months-long surge in nationwide unrest that has sparked fears Iraq is on the verge of slipping back into the all-out Sunni-Shiite sectarian war that left tens of thousands dead in 2006 and 2007. At the peak of sectarian fighting in the wake of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Sunni and Shiite militias regularly carried out tit-for-tat kidnappings and liquidations and left scores of corpses littering the streets. |
| Posted by:Fred |