Death squads target Baghadad's dustmen

[ECH1969]

IRAQ’S dustmen — mainly students working their way through college — have become targets for assassination in the country’s latest wave of ethnic violence.

In the past month 22 mostly Shi’ite dustmen have been killed on duty, prompting the governor of Baghdad to appeal to the public to protect them or face a refuse crisis in a city that is already in chaos.

One mother, Um Ahmad, lost two sons last week. Ahmad 21, and Ammar, 18, both engineering students, were killed with three colleagues as they collected rubbish in the al-Doura district of the capital.

“We are not against cleanliness or those who work for the good of the country, but these men are traitors — firstly for being Shi’ites and secondly because we have warned them time and time again that we plant booby traps and explosives in rubbish heaps and they shouldn’t report discoveries to the police, but they always do,” claimed the insurgent. He said he belonged to the Al-Qaeda in Iraq organisation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the country’s most wanted man.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2147687_1,00.html

[henslee]

1. Life is a sad experience for most people on the planet. Sigh.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Funny how the death squads showed up

along with Negroponte.

Guy has the worst luck.

[Monk06]

3. Negroponte has the worst luck. >>>>>>>>>>>

Yeah, four nuns get raped and murdered in El Salvador on his watch. Now it's teenaged
garbage collectors working their way through college.

It seems the murder of community service workers follows him around.

[rodeodance]

4. its basically targeting more acedemics.

[Rene]

5. It's like Cambodia all over again.....targetting the educated.

Folks should read Manhunt by Peter Maas about rogue CIA agents from the Vietnam era...under bush41's leadership. They fomented world arms dealing and regime changes and political killings.

[seriousstan]

6. "these men are traitors — firstly for being Shi’ites"

That about sums up their justifications.

[rasputin1952]

7. There are people who will kill others for any reason...

how sad that those who want an education and are willing to work to get through some of their schooloing are being targeted just because they are "different" in their beliefs.

Sad for Islam, one of the religions that put education at a high priority in it's history. Keep the masses ignorant, they are easier to lead...:(