Students "executed" as Iraq violence rages on

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_dc

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen in Iraq dragged 24 people, mostly teenage students, from vehicles and shot them dead, police said, as violence raged in the country on Sunday.


Iraqi leaders appeared deadlocked on naming new interior and defense ministers seen as critical to restoring stability in a country bloodied by relentless insurgent and sectarian killings.

Police said gunmen manning a makeshift checkpoint near Udhaim stopped cars approaching the small town 120 km (80 miles) north of Baghdad and killed passengers.

The victims included youths of around 15-16 years who were on their way to the bigger regional town of Baquba to write end of term exams, but also elderly men, they said.

"(The attackers) dragged them one by one from their cars and executed them," said a police official.

The killings took place in Diyala province, scene of frequent attacks by insurgents waging a campaign of bombings and shootings to topple the U.S.-backed, Shi'ite-led government.

Some tried to flee but were gunned down, a police source said. Reuters photographs showed six men shot in the chest, including one

[Rex]

1. Our marines kill 24 people, gunmen in Iraq kill 24 people.

All thanks to the war Little George created with the help of his friends. Had enough yet? Can't we just bring our troops home now? What's the body count have to reach before we leave? 100,000? A million? 24 million? How much blood and pain does it take America?

[IndianaGreen]

3. And some idiot civilian near Camp Pendleton said on TV that

we were in Iraq to fight terrorism.

[wordpix2]

6. the stupid King Pissypants & his men (& Condi) couldn't figure out in the

beginning that if they got rid of Saddam, a Sunni, they would then have to contend with the Shi'ia, a group aligned with Iran with a 60% majority in Iraq. I'm no international expert but if someone had told me that, I would certainly have thought about the ramifications of deposing Saddam and the power vacuum that would create. :mad: :puke:

Not so King W.Stupid. What a dumb fuck with his evil sidekick, Dickhead. I can't wait to see them and RummyRice hauled up to the Hague.

[cantstandbush]

2. But it's ok if the Shi'ites kill Sunnis because the Shi'ites are our buds!

Saddam=Sunni=bahaaaad

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Also on this topic...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2321733

[bluestateguy]

5. This is a horrific act of terrorism

Which means it's a matter for the supposedly sovereign Iraqi government to deal with.