Abbas begs Iraq to stop killings of Palestinians

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Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Iraq by Iraqis belonging to various political and religious factions over the past few months, Palestinian Authority officials here told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

In the past week alone, three Palestinians living in Baghdad were kidnapped and brutally murdered, the officials said. A week earlier, gunmen kidnapped and murdered Nawaf Mussa, a Palestinian who was working as an imam in a Baghdad mosque.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday phoned several Iraqi government officials and representatives of various groups in Baghdad, urging them to intervene to stop the killings. US troops in Iraq had managed to thwart several attacks on neighborhoods where large numbers of Palestinians live, saving many lives.

In another recent incident, Iraqi militiamen kidnapped and murdered the two brothers of a former PLO diplomat. Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered in the Thawra neighborhood.

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1. US troops in Iraq had managed to thwart several attacks ?

How can that be? We only want to kill the Palestinians, don't we. This is almost as bad as the time we stopped the slaughter in Kosovo.

:sarcasm: