Revenge killings claim lives of Saddam's cronies in southern Iraq

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/56357/1/.html

BASRA, Iraq : Dozens of Saddam Hussein's followers in Iraq's southern capital have been assassinated as they try to regroup and attack the coalition, the city's security chief told AFP.

"There have been too many political assassinations, dozens of them," said Colonel Mohammad Kazem Ahmad al-Ali, police director of internal security in Basra.


"These were liquidations of senior members of the previous regime who had committed crimes against the people," Ali said in an interview.

He declined to identify the perpetrators, but local residents said that members of the 20-to-30 political parties active in Basra have carried out the "revenge killings," targeting ranking members of the Baath party.

"We provide full support to those who dissociate themselves from the (Baath) party ... But not to those who are trying to revive the regime and the party. These (people) are hoping to rebuild the party," Ali said.
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[jamesinca]

1. Revenge killing is what we have put in place

I thought that is what we went over there to do was take that type of action out, after we found the WMD's.?