Baghdad denies Iraqi newsman's family 'liquidated'

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq on Wednesday denied the massacre of the family of a journalist who accused Shiite militias of killing 11 of his relatives as they ate breakfast at his Baghdad home three days ago.


Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs an Internet news website from Amman, claimed that Shiite militiamen had stormed into his house in northern Baghdad's Al-Shaab neighbourhood on Sunday and sprayed his relatives with gunfire, killing 11 of them.

"There was no physical liquidation of any member of his family," Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told reporters on Wednesday.

Dabbagh said he had spoken to Kawwaz's mother who also denied the massacre.



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[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. I'd be more inclined to believe that if...

They had spoken to one of the two sisters or their husbands or any of the seven children alleged to have been "liquidated."

[rocktivity]

2. There shouldn't be any problem producing the evidence, then

To wit, the eleven alleged corspes.


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[Jim__]

3. "There was no physical liquidation of any member of his family,"

What the hell does that mean?