Witnesses detail Iraq burning deaths

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_revenge_attacks

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The attack on the small Mustafa Sunni mosque began as worshippers were finishing Friday midday prayers. About 50 unarmed men, many in black uniforms and some wearing ski masks, walked through the district chanting "We are the Mahdi Army, shield of the Shiites."

Fifteen minutes later, two white pickup trucks, a black BMW and a black Opel drove up to the marchers. The suspected Shiite militiamen took automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers from the vehicles. They then blasted open the front of the mosque, dragged six worshippers outside, doused them with kerosene and set them on fire.

This account of one of the most horrific alleged attacks of Iraq's sectarian war emerged Tuesday in separate interviews with residents of a Sunni enclave in the largely Shiite Hurriyah district of Baghdad.

The Associated Press first reported on Friday's incident that evening, based on the account of police Capt. Jamil Hussein and Imad al-Hashimi, a Sunni elder in Hurriyah, who told Al-Arabiya television he saw people who were soaked in kerosene, then set afire, burning before his eyes.

AP Television News also took video of the Mustafa mosque showing a large portion of the front wall around the door blown away. The interior of the mosque appeared to be badly damaged and there were signs of fire.

[sniffa]

1. damn aL queda!!

this is their fauLt.

[Barrett808]

2. Wow. The US propaganda apparatus caught in a bald-faced lie.

I don't think this kind of brazen, wholly unconvincing denial from the Pentagon will fly any more.

[AlamoDemoc]

3. This is once again story the Army can’t seem to dampen with lies and PR

like the killing/rape and burning bodies in Mahmudiya, once again the Army will initially blame it on sectarian violence, but the truth will come out eventually.

[Cocoa]

4. this is sectarian violence

the Army is not involved in this.

I'm confused by your post. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

[AlamoDemoc]

5. what is so confusing about our presence there is killing Iraqis?

[The Magistrate]

6. What 'Truth' Do You Imagine Will Come Out, Sir?

[flyarm]

7. Dang, isn't that idiot son's democracy and freedom just ...

grand and jim dandy!!

what a disgrace our nation has become ..that human life means nothing anymore..not to idiot son or his murdering bandits and the fuckers who cheer him on!!

i am ashamed to call myself american anymore!

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