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| U.S. Says Iraqis Held in American Deaths Had Valid Police ID |
| 2004-03-12 |
| NY Times -- Registration required The American occupation authority said today that four of the six men arrested after gunmen shot and killed two American civilians on Tuesday were carrying "current and valid" documents identifying them as members of the new Iraqi police force. Iraqi police officers in Karbala said that several of the killers had worked at a police station opposite the place where one of the civilians, Fern Holland, 33, worked. Ms. Holland promoted women’s rights, and the killers’ motive appeared to be anger at American efforts that some perceive as hostile to local social mores, they said. Faced with opposition, the Iraqi cops decided to take care of things the old fashioned way... kill’em and dissapear the bodies. A fifth man seized in the killings was a former member of the police force under Saddam Hussein, an American spokesman said, while the sixth man was described as a civilian. Three days after the killings on a road near Karbala, the Shiite holy city 70 miles south of Baghdad, American officials identified the American victims as Ms. Holland and Robert Zangis, 44, a former marine, who was working with Iraqi newspapers to promote press rights. An Iraqi woman working as an interpreter was also killed when the car that all three were traveling in was chased down by the gunmen about 20 miles east of Karbala at sunset on Tuesday. American officials continued to hold back further details of the killings, citing concern for the families of the victims. They also said that the investigation by the F.B.I. and Iraqis was not complete, and that some details about the attack remained uncertain. Snipped a lot of NY Times whining and carping about cultural relativism. Sorry NYT, any culture that deals with diversity by snuffing it out with guns is a big fat f***ing goose egg. Human life come before cultural sensitivity. The person is more important than the Idea. |
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