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1,389 posted on 03/25/2007 10:41:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21447730-2703,00.html

This story is from The Times

"Children targeted in Baghdad"
James Hider in Baghdad
March 26, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Near the shops, a group of children — Sunni and Shia — were playing football on an empty site. As Selim, his wife and brother, walked past, two cars pulled up. Four or five men in tracksuits got out and opened their car boots. They pulled out belt-fed BKC machineguns, a weapon known in Iraq as “the harvester” for its ability to kill lots of people quickly.

“We heard the shooting of the machineguns. It was so loud and continuous we thought they were targeting us,” said the 28-year-old Shia, his eyes red and brimming with pain.

But they were not the targets.

“I started looking, and they are shooting the kids,” he said. “Eight of the kids already fell on the ground. The guys kept shooting, they just wanted to make sure everyone was dead.”

More than a month after the new American-Iraqi security plan was launched in Baghdad, those who want to sow chaos and civil war are adopting horrific tactics to ensure stability does not prevail. In Amel they achieved that goal with stunning effect.

“I saw something I’ll never forget. I saw people . . . they just went crazy,” Selim said.

As the killers drove away unharmed the local men rushed home to fetch their guns. Instead of trying to catch the gunmen or help their victims, Sunnis began shooting at Shia houses and Shias began firing on Sunnis.

“It was so horrible, you saw neighbours who’d been sitting outside together shooting at each other,” Selim said."


1,390 posted on 03/25/2007 11:24:36 PM PDT by Cindy
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