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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:23 PM
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Iraq falls into a living hell ... Death Squads and Civil War.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,406342,00.html

Well, @ least the Germans will get to read what is really happening.


<Shiite death squads are spreading fear in Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods. Meanwhile, politicians and police are growing powerless as the outbreak of a civil war becomes ever more likely in Iraq.

Death squads are stalking Sunnis in Shiite-dominated Baghdad neighborhoods.
When the men in black drive down his street, Ali Hasan al-Mahawish calls out to his playing children to come into the house immediately. He bolts the door, scared. This time it might be his family's turn. The men drive past at walking speed, clutching their guns. It's obvious they know exactly which houses the Sunnis live in. Mahawish is an engineer and a Sunni -- a potential victim of the death squads.

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According to a recent United Nations report, this type of "ethnic cleansing" has spread dramatically in Baghdad, a city of 6 million. And no one can stop the death squads, least of all the police. Six neighborhoods have already fallen prey to organized terror. Weeks have passed since the police was last seen in these neighborhoods, and Sunnis are now more afraid of the men in black than of the daily air raids.

You can protect yourself from bombs by not leaving the house, but the black-clad men come into your home. They claim to be avenging their murdered Shiite brothers. And there is no escape for their victims. Sunni politicians and clerics are their main targets. In the western suburb Abu Ghraib, a Sunni cleric was found shot in front of a mosque. Eye witnesses have identified the killers as members of one of the death squads.>
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:27 PM
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1. And the chimp's solution
to the problem of Iraqis killing Iraqis
is to KILL MORE IRAQIS.

So how do they know which Iraqis to kill? Or doesn't it matter?
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:30 PM
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2. This is so sad.
And what does chimpy do today? Massive air strikes.


Gas on the fire.

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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 12:49 PM
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3. That's *'s idea of freedom and democracy
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