Iraqi mother and 3 children throats slit for cooperating with Americans

[sabra]

http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/07/19/ap2890588.html

Assailants Kill Mom, 3 Children in Iraq

Assailants slit the throats of a mother and her three children Wednesday in southern Iraq, where the family had fled to escape threats that they had cooperated with the Americans.

The mother's sister was also slain in the savage attack, which occurred in an apartment in the southern city of Basra, police said. Five other family members were rescued before they bled to death.

Officials said the family had fled Baghdad for Basra after receiving threats because they had cooperated with U.S. forces. The officials gave no further details and spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals by sectarian militias that have infiltrated Basra's police.

:cry:

[uppityperson]

1. end. the. occupation. NOW!

[sabra]

3. Murtha was right.

[Yupster]

9. But let's get all the Iraqis who've

cooperated with us out first please.

The fundy part of the resistance doesn't appear to be the forgiving type to me.

Let's not have another Killing Fields in our lifetime.

[KingFlorez]

2. What great freedom

NOT

[Finder]

4. This smells like propaganda...

perhaps to compare with the rape and murder our side has been accused of?

[Jacobin]

5. The Vichy French didn't fare much better

Being a traitor to your own country will exact a high price .

This is awful, because I'm sure she was just working to make money to feed her family and this is what she's left with.

[TomInTib]

6. From Baghdad to Basra? How did we let that happen?

US personnel had to know about those threats.

Way back when, in my little war, if someone came to us and said they had been threatened for helping us, we went straight to the bad guys and killed them outright.

[Rex]

7. That's not an instant death folks, those 4 suffered horribly.

I've forced myself to watch some of the beheading and worse videos coming out of Iraq, the ones who get their throats slit didn't die right away. I don't know what to say about the violence anymore, it is sad, sick and wrong.

[adriennui]

8. it's the muslim way of slaughter

i'm not surprised this is occurring in iraq....the religious factions are at each others throats.

let's get the hell out of iraq. now.