47 workers killed at checkpoint near Baghdad

[bemildred]

Gunmen pulled factory workers off buses north-east of Baghdad and killed 47 of them, a provincial council member said.

The victims were travelling in three buses when they were stopped at a checkpoint in the Nahrawan area, about 12 miles south of Baqouba, said Dhari Thuban, a member of the Diyala Provincial Council. The buses were burned and their passengers killed, he said.

The motive for the killing was not immediately clear.

Residents told police that the bullet-riddled bodies were found at about midday behind a brick factory, the Interior Ministry said.

Independent.UK

[rodeodance]

1. the mosque insident may just be the thing that brings the ongoning civil

war-the most deny exists--upfront.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Holy fuck.

This reminds me of Rwanda.

[bemildred]

4. Not yet, but starting to think about it. nt

[cantstandbush]

3. Please bring our troops home and then try to atone for our sins.

The Iraq people do not deserve what is happening to them and their once beautiful country.

[sadiesworld]

5. I know I've read somewhere about the problems at these

brick factories due to the workers opposition to privatization. I bet that's what this is about.

[keta11]

6. Why is the media not reporting all the good news in Eye-raq?

Its all peachy clean and we are staying the course

[tabasco]

7. Beat me to it. I heard we painted a school in Mosul.

That should make it all ok.