Sunday, April 4, 2010

Twenty-four die in Iraq revenge killings

Torpedoes disguised as Iraqi soldiers have popped at least 24 extremities of a Sunni reserves opposed to al-Qaida in a small town south of Baghdad.



Five women were among those voted out after personifies swept from their households last night, notifiable to Iraqi army officials.


The victims were bound with manacles and sprayed with machine-gun attack. Great of the torsos were "beyond recognition", notifiable to a senior Iraqi regular army official who liked to rest anonymous.


At least seven mass were establish live, very Baghdad's protection spokesman, Major Large Qassim al-Moussawi. He very the cleanups bore "an obvious al-Qaida hallmark".


Many of those killed were members of local Sunni militias that grown against al-Qaida and its friends two years ago in what was a pregnant turning point in the cause to void the Iraqi insurgency.


Moussawi very 24 people were confirmed dead, although an interior ministry official put the toll at between 20 and 25 men and five adult females.


Mustafa Kamel, a localized reserves leader, very the attack occurred late last dark in a village in the Arab Jabour arena, nearly 15 miles (25km) southwest of Baghdad.


There are about 100,000 members of the Sunni reserves, known as Waking Councils and the Sons of Iraq. The US last year handed over control of the Waking Councils to the Iraqi governing, which pays their members about US$300 a month.

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