Iraq Gunmen Kill 23 Yazidis

[still_one]

Source: Wall Street Journal

Iraq Gunmen Kill 23 Yazidis
Associated Press
April 22, 2007 11:26 a.m.

BAGHDAD -- Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny Kurdish religious sect, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, on a tour abroad to ask the mostly Sunni-led governments of the Arab world to help his struggling government stop the violence in Iraq, said he told Egypt's president that Iraq's reality is "not a civil or sectarian war."

Separately, two suicide car bombers attacked a police station Sunday in western Baghdad, police said, killing at least 13 people and turning nearby buildings into piles of rubble.



Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117723095021378112.html?mod=home_whats_news_us

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From the Wall Street Journal Online

[Stella_Artois]

1. Mission acomplished !

Can we go home now ?

[still_one]

3. The full article lists much more chaos and death

...
"A top U.S. general said Sunday that American forces had no technology capable of detecting all suicide bombers before they strike. Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, who is in charge of training Iraqi troops, said the only solution is for Iraqi forces, government officials and civilians to work together to stop the terrorist cells planning attacks.

"There is no technological solution that will guarantee that we can prevent . either a suicide bomber or a suicide car bomber from entering into the populated areas," Mr. Dempsey told reporters in Baghdad's Green Zone.



...
"In other violence, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party was gunned down near his house in Fallujah, police said.
...
"In Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad, three bodies were found floating in the Tigris River, blindfolded with the hands bound, and gunshots in the head and chest, said morgue official Maamoun al-Ajili.
...
"The bodies of three brothers abducted six days ago in Mosul were also discovered Sunday, police said.
...
etc. etc. etc.

[ohio2007]

2. Must be those damn Turks who have been promising an invasion

of northern Iraq for years now.

[shenmue]

4. Awful

:cry:

[Eugene]

5. The AP story from a registration-free link...

Source: Associated Press

Gunmen kill 23 from Iraqi religious sect

-snip-

After the killings, hundreds of Yazidis took to the streets of
Bashika, a town in Ninevah province that is 80 percent Yazidi,
15 percent Christian and about five percent Muslim. Shops were
shuttered and many Muslims closed themselves in their homes,
fearing reprisal attacks.

Abdul-Karim Khalaf, a police spokesman for Ninevah province said
the executions were in response to the killing two weeks ago of a
Yazidi woman who had recently converted to Islam.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[acmavm]

6. That bastard Maliki has learned his lessons from the bush** admin

very well. Especially lying...

<snip>
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, on a tour abroad to ask the mostly Sunni-led governments of the Arab world to help his struggling government stop the violence in Iraq, said he told Egypt's president that Iraq's reality is "not a civil or sectarian war."
<snip>

[Pirate Smile]

7. Police: Gunmen line up, execute 23 Kurds in Mosul

Source: Associated Press

Police: Gunmen line up, execute 23 Kurds in Mosul
POSTED: 12:44 p.m. EDT, April 22, 2007

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny Kurdish religious sect, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot.

The executions came on the same day that two suicide car bombers targeted a police station in western Baghdad, killing 13.

-snip-
Armed men in several cars stopped the bus Sunday afternoon as it was carrying workers from the Mosul Textile Factory to their hometown of Bashika, which has a mixed population of Christians and Yazidis -- a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel considered to be the devil by some Muslims and Christians.

The gunmen checked passengers' identification cards, then asked all Christians to get off the bus, said police Brig. Mohammed al-Wagga.
With the Yazidis still inside, the gunmen drove them to eastern Mosul, where they were lined up along a wall and shot to death, al-Wagga said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/22/iraq.main.ap/index.html

[Botany]

8. We have opened up the gates of hell

:cry:

[jmc247]

9. The Yazidis stone a Yazidi woman who converted to Islam

and as a response Muslims start butchering Yazidi's on mass? These people are wackos.

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Police said the execution-style killings of the Yazidis — a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims and Christians — appeared to be in response to the stoning death of a Yazidi woman who had recently converted to Islam.

"Then they asked the Yazidis to get back on the bus. The gunmen started to shout 'God curse your devil' and they were telling the Yazidis that 'It is not your business if the woman decided to convert to Islam," said the passenger, Mustafa Ali Mustafa.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[shenmue]

10. More insanity

:cry:

It's so terrible that people can be this cruel.

[Double T]

11. Religious intolerance by ALL RELIGIONS will never end.

It is a pathetic, worldwide disgrace.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Anyone ask Gingrich if this was the fault of liberalism, too?

[Eugene]

13. More than 70 Iraqis killed in violence

Source: Associated Press

More than 70 Iraqis killed in violence

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient
religious sect in northern Iraq on Sunday after stopping their
bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while at
least 20 people were killed in car bombings in the capital.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Egypt's leader, meanwhile,
to ignore widespread reports that the country is suffering
"a civil or sectarian war." He also said he would halt the
construction of a barrier that would separate a Sunni enclave
from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad that had drawn sharp
criticism from Sunni leaders and residents.

-snip-

In all, at least 72 people were killed or found dead in Iraq
on Sunday, including 24 bullet-riddled bodies and two brothers
who were shot to death in the volatile city of Fallujah, a day
after the chairman of the city's council was assassinated.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 22
22 Apr 2007 17:54:51 GMT
Source: Reuters

April 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1745 GMT
on Sunday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Police found 11 bodies in different areas of Baghdad in the past
24 hours.

* BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds landed in the Abu Dsheir district in southern
Baghdad killing two people and wounding five, police said.

-snip-

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it carried out air strikes on a known al Qaeda
meeting location south of Baghdad, killing 15 militants. Ground forces later
killed another three militants in the operation, the military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - A car bombed parked near a primary school in the Saidiya district
in southern Baghdad killed six people and wounded 37, police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L22719391.htm

[rodeodance]

14. Gunmen execute workers in northern Iraq

Source: AP


Gunmen execute workers in northern Iraq

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern
Iraq on Sunday after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while at least 20 people were killed in car bombings in the capital.


Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Egypt's leader, meanwhile, to ignore widespread reports that the country is suffering "a civil or sectarian war." He also said he would halt the construction of a barrier that would separate a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad that had drawn sharp criticism from Sunni leaders and residents.

In the northern Iraq attack, armed men stopped the bus as it was carrying workers from a textile factory in Mosul to their hometown of Bashika, which has a mixed population of Christians and Yazidis — a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims ad Christians.

The gunmen checked the passengers' identification cards, then asked all Christians to get off the bus, said police Brig. Mohammed al-Wagga. With the Yazidis still inside, the gunmen drove them to eastern Mosul, where they were lined up along a wall and shot to death, al-Wagga said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AnJWWCZK7aOS6LjMz7VvwVis0NUE

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Correction-Yazidis shot, Christians left unharmed

please correct.

[rodeodance]

16. 23 taken from bus, gunned down in Iraq

23 taken from bus, gunned down in Iraq

By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Gunmen in northern
Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny, mostly Kurdish religious sect on Sunday, police said, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot. .......

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070422182550;_ylt=AmOOtz73ZUvKkGRXPBzP2_EUewgF

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

17. Last sentence of your snippet

"The gunmen checked the passengers' identification cards, then asked all Christians to get off the bus, said police Brig. Mohammed al-Wagga. With the Yazidis still inside, the gunmen drove them to eastern Mosul, where they were lined up along a wall and shot to death, al-Wagga said."