Iraqi police execution video released - GRAPHIC

[helderheid]

Executions must be condemned, U.S. says

POSTED: 9:19 a.m. EST, March 4, 2007


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military is calling on all Iraqi leaders, Sunni and Shia, to condemn the recent kidnapping and killing of 15 Iraqi police officers in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman.

"With many influential leaders making the same statement, the population will realize that these terrorists are not the future of Iraq," said Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of U.S.-led troops in Diyala province, where the police officers were killed on Friday.

A day earlier, the men were seen blindfolded on an al Qaeda-connected Web site, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office. (Full story)

The Islamic State of Iraq, a Sunni insurgent group, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and killings in retaliation for an alleged rape that has aggravating the already deteriorating ties between Sunnis and Shiites.

Shiite government leaders, including al-Maliki, say the allegation was fabricated and is serving to undermine the Baghdad security plan's effort to target any and all insurgents, no matter what their ethnic or religious affiliation.

Sunni leaders believe the alleged victim is telling the truth and are outraged by the officials' response.

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[helderheid]

1. kick

[madokie]

2. its just going to keep getting worser and worser too

only a fool can think for a moment that we won't be driven out of Iraq eventually and if thats true then all that is lost is all lost in vain, both Iraqi and American. so sad