Shia hostages hanged in streets in revenge for Saddam's execution

[maddezmom]

By Aqeel Hussein in Baghdad and Damien McElroy
Last Updated: 1:56am GMT 09/01/2007



Saddam Hussein's execution has inspired a gruesome cycle of revenge, with scores of Shia Muslims found hanged from lampposts in Baghdad.

The residents of the city's Haifa Street will long remember the events of Sunday morning. As shop owners raised their shutters and stall holders set out their stock, three minibuses roared to a halt.

Gunmen jumped out and pulled blindfolded prisoners on to the street. Ropes were tied to lampposts and electricity poles. Those hostages who resisted were shot. Others who were still alive had nooses tied around their necks and were then suspended in mid air to choke to death.

All were left hanging, and the victims received little sympathy from those who witnessed the events.

"We watched as all these blindfolded men were hung up and some were shot in the head," Imad Atwan, a supermarket worker said.

more:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/09/wiraq09.xml

[rodeodance]

1. 102 Shia bodies.

All were left hanging, and the victims received little sympathy from those who witnessed the events.

"We watched as all these blindfolded men were hung up and some were shot in the head," Imad Atwan, a supermarket worker said.

"Altogether there were 23 bodies. We are all Sunni people here so we supported the gunmen. Some of them are the guards of our neighbourhood.

"Somebody called the police and the guards waited to shoot at them when they arrived.

"Half an hour after the police fled, they came back with the army and took the bodies away."

Capt Mohammad Salim, of the interior ministry, said: "We have gathered 102 Shia bodies and believe that 90 per cent of them were taken hostage for Saddam Hussein's execution and then found hanging from poles by ropes."

[rodeodance]

2. umm. this has not been in the msn that I know of

[ShortnFiery]

3. Nope, that's because they were told to hyper-focus on the foul smell

across Manhattan. :shrug:

Our illustrious American media grants us all the news that The Pentagon manufactures and/or allows us to know. :P

[aquart]

5. So when your neighborhood stinks you want the MSM to be quiet?

I'm not George and I don't harp on 9/11, especially after Katrina, but this is New York and when a strange odor makes people feel ill all over the island, the government knows it has to respond quickly to let us know what's happening and what we need to do. This is the island that evacuated ash-covered people to New Jersey from Battery Park on any small boat that showed up, like Dunkirk.

When that happens in your neighborhood, maybe you'll want the news to cover local events fully thereafter.

[ShortnFiery]

6. Not 24/7 coverage, nope, especially when the mayor says that

the situation is not dangerous.

BTW where I grew up - a tiny town in the midwest, my neighborhood always STANK TO HIGH HEAVEN. But my family didn't mind the local cheese factory's stench from whey by products because we slopped it to our pigs. They grew up fat and sassy! I always got to keep the runt as a pet. The rest were yummy!

Naw, when you have to actually go out, wade-in a pen of over one foot deep mud and pig sh*t mixture to slop the hogs twice a day, very few smells freak you out. ;) But then I'm not as sensitive as Manhattan city folk. <tongue-in-cheek>

[jmowreader]

4. In the American MSM? Why would it?

In England, the Telegraph is about as mainstream as it gets.

But let's be real here: did anyone expect this NOT to happen, after the Shia hanged Saddam Hussein (a Sunni) on the day Sunnis celebrate Eid al-Fitr?