6 family members killed in Iraq

[sabra]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD — Assailants broke into a house and killed six family members before dawn Wednesday in an area north of Baghdad that was once a stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraqi officials said.

The dead included a couple and two daughters, and two brothers of the husband, according to a police officer in Tarmiyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of the capital. The throats of two women were slit, while the other four people were shot execution-style; two of the couple's other children were not harmed.

A motive for the attack was not immediately clear. The Tarmiyah officer and a police investigator said the Sunni Arab victims were not affiliated with Sunni militiamen, many of them former insurgents, who joined U.S. forces and turned against al-Qaida in Iraq.

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Also Wednesday, a double bombing injured 25 civilians in the Shiite holy city of Karbala ahead of an Islamic holiday, officials said.

One bomb first exploded in a restaurant, drawing onlookers and police, before a suicide bomber on a motorcycle then drove toward the crowd and detonated his explosives, said a provincial police officer and a doctor at al-Hussein General Hospital.

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[Christa]

1. Oh no

how horrific


:cry:




I blame Bush. I really do. I wish there was a hell he could roast in for all of eternity.