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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 3:39 am Post subject: New Savage Twist to Violence in Baghdad |
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I can't even begin to get my minds-eye around this level of unfathomable barbarity...
| Quote: | New Savage Twist to Violence in Baghdad
Nov 24, 5:17 PM (ET)
By STEVEN R. HURST
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Revenge-seeking militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers and burned them alive with kerosene in a savage new twist to the brutality shaking the Iraqi capital a day after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district.
Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in Friday's assault by suspected members of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia or subsequent attacks that killed at least 19 other Sunnis, including women and children, in the same neighborhood, the volatile Hurriyah district in northwest Baghdad, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein.
Most of the thousands of dead bodies that have been found dumped across Baghdad and other cities in central Iraq in recent months have been of victims who were tortured and then shot to death, according to police. The suspected militia killers often have used electric drills on their captives' bodies before killing them. The bodies are frequently decapitated.
But burning victims alive introduced a new method of brutality that was likely to be reciprocated by the other sect as the Shiites and Sunnis continue killing one another in unprecedented numbers. The gruesome attack, which came despite a curfew in Baghdad, capped a day in which at least 87 people were killed or found dead in sectarian violence across Iraq.
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dcornutt
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:10 am Post subject: |
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It appears the story is not true. It was investigated and reported on by centcom. I think flopping Aces .com has an in depth on it.
It appears there are quite a few "unauthorized" MSM press briefings by people not authorized to give them...who apparently put out false information that the MSM seems to run with. Go figure.
check it out...
http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/25/getting-the-news-from-the-enemies-mouth/ |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Good find, dcornutt. You'd think that the incident of pajama-media catching on to faked photos of the Israeli conflict a while back might have made the MSM a little more cautious about its sources and accuracy.
Apparently, though, the ends justify the means.  And once again, bloggers are left to do the job that MSM claims belongs to "legitimate" media.
http://floppingaces2.blogspot.com/ - the excerpt from the Novack column at the very bottom of the page is chilling.
I'm grateful to find that the barbarity hasn't yet sunk to the levels described by this singular source, but now that our MSM has given them the idea AND let them know that this kind of thing is appalling enough to Americans in general.... 
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