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Gunmen Dressed As Iraqi Army Torture, Kill 24 Sunni Muslims - Is This How To Resolve An Election?
David Horowitz's NewsRealBlog.com ^ | April 3, 2010 | John L. Work

Posted on 04/03/2010 1:00:51 PM PDT by JLWORK

This just in from the “I Can’t Tell The Good Guys From the Bad Guys” department – (photo of al-Maliki and Ahmadinejad above from Michelle Malkin’s website:

Gunmen wearing the uniforms of Iraqi army soldiers invaded a village south of Baghdad on Good Friday, rounded up at least thirty-one Sunni Muslims and killed twenty-four of them. Some of the dead had their arms and legs broken prior to being shot and many were beaten beyond recognition. Seven victims were found alive, hands cuffed behind their backs.

These killings came on the heels of the recent Iraqi election, the final results of which are being brokered in Iran by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Muqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American who fled to exile in Iran when the post-Hussein civil war erupted between Shiites and Sunnis. The close election is still in dispute and some believe this latest violence is related thereto. Can the Sunnis and Shiites still be pursuing this sectarian madness, after twelve Centuries of killing each other? Can’t they all just get along here?

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KEYWORDS: election; iraq; shiite; sunni

1 posted on 04/03/2010 1:00:51 PM PDT by JLWORK
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To: JLWORK
The close election is still in dispute and some believe this latest violence is related thereto.

I dislike reporting like this. The real possibility is that there is an effort here to make folks hate the military.

Why isn't it stated as such? SOME believe this was an effort to destroy the credibility and respect for the military.

2 posted on 04/03/2010 1:07:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Be still & kneel before the all knowing/seeing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr. blessings be upon him.)
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