Cell phone videos removed from YOUTUBE as said to anger Iraqi as depicts Inappropriate Material.
| Warning: Execution of unarmed man by Iraqi fighters: YouTube has permanently suspended my account and deleted all my videos. The reason they gave me was "repeated attempts to upload inappropriate videos." I have been receiving several angry messages from Iraqis who did not like the videos I had published of Mahdi Army militiamen blowing up Sunni mosques in Baghdad and Basrah, and from some Kurds who objected to this video, which I had uploaded two days ago before my account was blocked (mature content): The cellphone video has been circulating on Iraqi websites. It is purportedly a video of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in the Iraqi Army summarily executing a young unarmed man in Mosul this month. The sound is not clear but the soldiers were speaking the Kurdish dialect of Erbil, according to some Kurds who viewed the video. The man is swearing to them that he "has nothing," and the officer is heard telling the soldiers to release him, but they enter a heated argument with the officer, ending in their prostrating the man on the street and opening fire on him. No further details are available about the video.
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