For Iraqi family, ‘no other choice’ .Villagers force execution of informer

[MaineDem]

Says had “no other choice” after villagers threatened to kill other family members.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/946837.asp

Two hours before the dawn call to prayer, in a village still shrouded in silence, Sabah Kerbul’s executioners arrived. His father carried an AK-47 assault rifle, as did his brother. And with barely a word spoken, they led the man accused by the village of working as an informer for the Americans behind a house girded with fig trees, vineyards and orange groves.

HIS FATHER raised his rifle and aimed it at his oldest son.

“Sabah didn’t try to escape,” said Abdullah Ali, a village resident. “He knew he was facing his fate.”

The story of what followed is based on interviews with Kerbul’s father, brother and five other villagers who said witnesses told them about the events. One shot tore through Kerbul’s leg, another his torso, the villagers said. He fell to the ground still breathing, his blood soaking the parched dust near the banks of the Tigris River, they said. His father could go no further, and according to some accounts, he collapsed. His other son then fired three times, the villagers said, at least once at his brother’s head.



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[ima_sinnic]

2. so glad we're sponsoring this civil war in Iraq

. . . while Osama bin Laden runs loose and more and more Americans lose their jobs.
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Nice going, you fascist pigs. Real relevant to the needs/concerns of American citizens.

[joshcryer]

3. But I thought we were giving money and aide to those who...

...helped us? I mean, didn't we give $30 million to that one great guy who went out of his way to help? And we gave him other stuff, too, like protection.

This is weird. I thought we were taking care of the people who helped us...

[Minstrel Boy]

7. ratting out Husseins is one thing

but common informants are held in contempt by all sides, at all times, everywhere.

[oneighty]

4. So sad.

180

[bemildred]

5. Very sad.

[OrdinaryTa]

6. Dancing In The Streets

Did Wolfowitz and Cheney really expect the Iraqis would welcome the Americans as liberators? As unlikely as it seems now, possibly they did! It's not just an intelligence failure anymore. It's that these people don't have the intellectual honesty to entertain ideas that contradict their preconceptions. They see what they want to see.

[maha]

9. Yep, that's what they expected.

[ima_sinnic]

10. welcome maha!

from a fan

:toast:

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

8. very tragic. historically those who help occupiers suffer

Those who dared helped the Nazis in Italy & Vichy France
during the Nazis occupation suffered the same fate
after liberation.

Many were shot, beaten, or those who were
lucky to remain alive - shunned.

Helping an occuppying army is NOT good for your health
when your fellow villagers are watching.

History repeats. Again.

[donsu]

11. in WWII women had their hair shaved off

some were branded (like cattle)

[pbeal]

12. Some were hung

and some were shot
French women who colabrated that is

[study_war_no_more]

13. Vichy Vichy Vichy

repeat until you understand first the neocons then come the neomorlocks and now we have the Vichy.