Jelly
09-26-2005, 08:03 PM
oh yeah. They're JUST like the minutemen. Way to go brave martyrs. Fight for Iraq. Defeat the American Infidels....oh nevermind that... just massacre some schoolteachers. You will be greeted in paradise by 72 virgins and 1 NBADan (who is also probably a virgin)
INSURGENTS EXECUTE SCHOOL TEACHERS
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: September 26, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 26 -A group of armed men burst into a primary school in a town south of Baghdad today, rounded up five teachers, marched them to an empty classroom and executed them, a police official said. All of those killed were Shiite.
A string of attacks across Iraq today left at least 16 people dead, including a suicide car bomb attack at a government ministry.
School was just getting out in Muilha, a suburb of Iskandariya, a town about 30 miles south of Baghdad, when about 10 gunmen dressed in police uniforms entered the building at 1:15 p.m. and shot the teachers, all men. As the gunmen fled the building, they also shot and killed the teachers' driver, who was waiting outside to take them home. [ah...such noble freedom fighters]
While Iraqis are tormented by daily attacks, teachers have rarely, if ever, been the targets. The killing was particularly cruel as it took place while some children were still at the school, called al-Jazeera, and raised fears that schools, largely unprotected here, could become a new target.
The attack was the most startling in a string of violence in and around Baghdad that left 16 people dead, including three American soldiers and a number of laborers in a minivan.
Shiite civilians of all types have been singled out in recent months, and the police official, who identified himself as Captain Abu al-Hars, said the killing appeared to have been motivated more by sectarian hatred than by the victims' profession.
Rifts between Iraq's two main religious groups have deepened considerably since January, when Shiite religious parties were elected to head the government, leaving Sunnis with a minor role. Tensions have hardened as Iraq prepares to hold a national referendum next month on a new constitution that is largely opposed by Sunni Arabs.
Sunni Arab radicals carry out the waves of attacks, and have explicitly called for the killings of Iraqi Shiites in recent weeks.
Muilha is a predominantly Sunni Arab suburb set in the heart of an area south of Baghdad known as the "Triangle of Death," where sectarian violence has been particularly intense. The area has been relentlessly attacked, most recently on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shiite shrine in Musayyib, killing six people. In July a suicide bombing in that city, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, killed 71 people.
Many of the Sunni Arabs in the area were given favors by Saddam Hussein, who was trying to build a buffer against the Shiite south, and are bitterly opposed to Shiite power.
Three of the teachers were from Muhawil, a Shiite town north of Hilla, an Interior Ministry official said. They had apparently taken some safety precautions, banding together in a minivan that ferried them to and from work a distance of about 15 miles. But schools in Iraq are poorly protected - without blast walls and usually with only a handful of security guards, and the teachers did not stand a chance. The attackers drove up in two Opels, one white and one silver, Captain Abu al-Hars said. They appeared to have selected the only male teachers in the school. The female teachers were unharmed.
In the attacks on the Americans, the American command said in a statement that a military policeman was killed 50 miles southeast of Baghdad, while two American soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in western Baghdad.
Also today, a suicide bomber detonated his car at the gates of the Iraqi police academy, killing at least seven people and wounding 30 in the second attack in as many days on Iraqi police officers. Among the dead were two policemen and five civilians, several of whom were oil ministry laborers riding in a minivan.
Also today, American forces opened fire on a minibus, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, killing one passenger and wounding four. The spokesman said an Egyptian telecommunications employee was kidnapped when his car was intercepted.
Reporting for this article was contributed by Robert F. Worth, Omar al-Neami and Thaier Aldaami from Baghdad, an Iraqi employee of The New York Times from Kirkuk, and Christine Hauser from New York.
INSURGENTS EXECUTE SCHOOL TEACHERS
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: September 26, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 26 -A group of armed men burst into a primary school in a town south of Baghdad today, rounded up five teachers, marched them to an empty classroom and executed them, a police official said. All of those killed were Shiite.
A string of attacks across Iraq today left at least 16 people dead, including a suicide car bomb attack at a government ministry.
School was just getting out in Muilha, a suburb of Iskandariya, a town about 30 miles south of Baghdad, when about 10 gunmen dressed in police uniforms entered the building at 1:15 p.m. and shot the teachers, all men. As the gunmen fled the building, they also shot and killed the teachers' driver, who was waiting outside to take them home. [ah...such noble freedom fighters]
While Iraqis are tormented by daily attacks, teachers have rarely, if ever, been the targets. The killing was particularly cruel as it took place while some children were still at the school, called al-Jazeera, and raised fears that schools, largely unprotected here, could become a new target.
The attack was the most startling in a string of violence in and around Baghdad that left 16 people dead, including three American soldiers and a number of laborers in a minivan.
Shiite civilians of all types have been singled out in recent months, and the police official, who identified himself as Captain Abu al-Hars, said the killing appeared to have been motivated more by sectarian hatred than by the victims' profession.
Rifts between Iraq's two main religious groups have deepened considerably since January, when Shiite religious parties were elected to head the government, leaving Sunnis with a minor role. Tensions have hardened as Iraq prepares to hold a national referendum next month on a new constitution that is largely opposed by Sunni Arabs.
Sunni Arab radicals carry out the waves of attacks, and have explicitly called for the killings of Iraqi Shiites in recent weeks.
Muilha is a predominantly Sunni Arab suburb set in the heart of an area south of Baghdad known as the "Triangle of Death," where sectarian violence has been particularly intense. The area has been relentlessly attacked, most recently on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shiite shrine in Musayyib, killing six people. In July a suicide bombing in that city, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, killed 71 people.
Many of the Sunni Arabs in the area were given favors by Saddam Hussein, who was trying to build a buffer against the Shiite south, and are bitterly opposed to Shiite power.
Three of the teachers were from Muhawil, a Shiite town north of Hilla, an Interior Ministry official said. They had apparently taken some safety precautions, banding together in a minivan that ferried them to and from work a distance of about 15 miles. But schools in Iraq are poorly protected - without blast walls and usually with only a handful of security guards, and the teachers did not stand a chance. The attackers drove up in two Opels, one white and one silver, Captain Abu al-Hars said. They appeared to have selected the only male teachers in the school. The female teachers were unharmed.
In the attacks on the Americans, the American command said in a statement that a military policeman was killed 50 miles southeast of Baghdad, while two American soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in western Baghdad.
Also today, a suicide bomber detonated his car at the gates of the Iraqi police academy, killing at least seven people and wounding 30 in the second attack in as many days on Iraqi police officers. Among the dead were two policemen and five civilians, several of whom were oil ministry laborers riding in a minivan.
Also today, American forces opened fire on a minibus, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, killing one passenger and wounding four. The spokesman said an Egyptian telecommunications employee was kidnapped when his car was intercepted.
Reporting for this article was contributed by Robert F. Worth, Omar al-Neami and Thaier Aldaami from Baghdad, an Iraqi employee of The New York Times from Kirkuk, and Christine Hauser from New York.