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Forum Spin Doctor
Media: The Associated Press
Byline: n/a
Date: 14 October 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities found the decapitated corpses of seven people
dumped north of Baghdad in what appeared to be a sectarian revenge killing,
police said Saturday.
The bodies were found in an orchard in the city of Duluiyah late Friday.
Three were from among a group of 17 construction workers kidnapped Thursday
while traveling home to the predominantly Shiite town of Balad, police said.
The corpses of the other 14 were found earlier Friday, also all beheaded.
The kidnapping was apparently retaliation for the Wednesday kidnapping of
three Sunni Arabs in Duluiyah by a Shiite militia based in Balad, police
said. The three were killed and their bodies burned.
In Diwaniyah, 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of Baghdad, unidentified
gunmen driving by in a car killed teacher Mohammed Muhsin al-Marmadhi as he
was leaving his home, police Lt. Raed Jabr said.
In Baghdad, a journalist working for government-run TV was killed in a
similar drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad on Friday night, police said.
Raed Qais al-Shammari, a technician with the al-Iraqiya station, had been
standing near his home talking with a friend when he was shot by an
unidentified gunman from a car in the violence-wracked Dora neighborhood,
police Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq said.
The attack follows the killings Thursday of 11 people at Baghdad's private
Shaabiya television station. Shiite militiamen are suspected to have carried
out that attack, possibly due to perceptions the newly formed station was
backing their Sunni-Arab rivals.
Byline: n/a
Date: 14 October 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities found the decapitated corpses of seven people
dumped north of Baghdad in what appeared to be a sectarian revenge killing,
police said Saturday.
The bodies were found in an orchard in the city of Duluiyah late Friday.
Three were from among a group of 17 construction workers kidnapped Thursday
while traveling home to the predominantly Shiite town of Balad, police said.
The corpses of the other 14 were found earlier Friday, also all beheaded.
The kidnapping was apparently retaliation for the Wednesday kidnapping of
three Sunni Arabs in Duluiyah by a Shiite militia based in Balad, police
said. The three were killed and their bodies burned.
In Diwaniyah, 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of Baghdad, unidentified
gunmen driving by in a car killed teacher Mohammed Muhsin al-Marmadhi as he
was leaving his home, police Lt. Raed Jabr said.
In Baghdad, a journalist working for government-run TV was killed in a
similar drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad on Friday night, police said.
Raed Qais al-Shammari, a technician with the al-Iraqiya station, had been
standing near his home talking with a friend when he was shot by an
unidentified gunman from a car in the violence-wracked Dora neighborhood,
police Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq said.
The attack follows the killings Thursday of 11 people at Baghdad's private
Shaabiya television station. Shiite militiamen are suspected to have carried
out that attack, possibly due to perceptions the newly formed station was
backing their Sunni-Arab rivals.