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| 8 Females, 2 Teenagers Kidnapped in Iraq |
| 2006-10-14 |
| Gosh. Looks like those Sunni Sheikhs aren't helping out all that much. It's the usual AP pot-luck article - edited to try to stick to the headline.(AP) - Gunmen attacked Shiite women picking vegetables in a field outside the capital Friday, killing six adults and two young girls and kidnapping two teenagers. It was one of the deadliest assaults specifically targeting women in Iraq's monthslong wave of sectarian violence. Police said they suspected the gunmen were Sunnis seeking to intimidate Shiites into fleeing the area south of Baghdad. Previous major attacks in Iraq have killed many women and men together, and at times individual women have been shot or kidnapped. But rarely have large groups of women been attacked. The attack on the farm field took place outside Saifiya, an ethnically mixed village south of Baghdad. Most residents already fled to escape violence, Sunnis going to the nearby town of Madain, Shiites to neighboring Suwayrah. The women were gathering vegetables when gunmen pulled up in two cars around 8 a.m. and surrounded the field. They opened fire, killing six women and two girls about 4 or 5 years old, Lt. Mohammed al-Shammari said. The attackers forced two teenage girls into the cars and escaped, he said. Al-Shammari said the gunmen may have come from the nearby Baghdad district of Dora, a mixed neighborhood long torn by bloodshed inflicted by both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militiamen. Baghdad has been the epicenter of violence for months. The city has averaged 36 attacks a day the past three weeks, an increase of nearly 30 percent over the preceding seven weeks and 60 percent higher than from mid-March to mid-June, according to U.S. military figures. The U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, attributed the rise to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, when he said attacks "historically" have increased. Some Islamic militants believe that dying in combat during Ramadan brings extra blessings in paradise. Happy Ramadan. Skip the veggies. |
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| #1 They opened fire, killing six women and two girls about 4 or 5 years old, Looks like they were the lucky ones. There seems to be no low that is too low for these "people" to sink. At some point, the liberal left in Europe and here at home is going to have to face the fact that no matter how many pearls they throw before these swine - that it just makes the swine stronger and more aggressive. The self-adoring liberal world has only two choices available: become servants of the swine, or acknowledge that their logic challenged belief system was always as stupid as the conservatives claimed it was. I'm guessing lots of them would rather prostrate themselves to these inhuman creatures than they would acknowledge that they were the fools we always knew they were. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-10-14 11:59 |