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| Iraq |
| Gunmen slaughter Iraqi families, behead victims |
| 2010-02-23 |
| [Mail and Globe] Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi families, mostly children, and beheaded some of the 11 victims on Monday as a spate of brutal attacks hit the country less than two weeks before elections. The family members were killed in their homes in and around Baghdad, while another 11 people died in violence across Iraq, including three in a suicide car bombing and a police commando who was shot dead by a sniper. The worst incident occurred in Al-Wehdah, a predominantly Shiite Muslim town in an ethnically mixed area about 20 km southeast of Baghdad. Eight members of the same family, including six children younger than 12, were shot dead and several were beheaded. "A terrorist group carried out at 7:00 am (0400 GMT) a brutal crime against a family in Al-Wehdah," the Baghdad Operations Command said in a statement. "This gang killed eight members of this family using silencer pistols. The criminals have beheaded some of them." Beheadings have been the trademark of Sunni insurgents in Iraq, particularly Al-Qaeda militants in the violence that flared after the 2003 US-led invasion, although the motive for the attack was unclear. Baghdad police said they later apprehended four people carrying silencers in connection with the murders, after receiving a tip-off. A second family, comprising a mother and her two daughters, was shot dead in their home in the mostly Shiite north Baghdad district of al-Hurriyah, a police official said on condition of anonymity. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 It's becoming almost like "guess that party". |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-02-23 05:08 |
| #1 Look for the bodies to show up at the next Dronezap as "Killed by the Americans". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-02-23 03:29 |