Sunnis Are Reportedly Burned Alive in Retaliatory Violence

[ECH1969]

Police Capt Jamil Hussein said Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in the burnings of Sunnis carried out by suspected members of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia, or in subsequent attacks that torched four Sunni mosques and killed at least 19 other Sunnis, including women and children, in the same northwest Baghdad area.

Imad al-Hasimi, a Sunni elder in Hurriyah, confirmed Hussein's account. He told Al-Arabiya television he saw people who were soaked in kerosene, then set afire, burning before his eyes.

Two workers at Kazamiyah Hospital said the bodies from the clashes and immolations had been taken to the morgue at their facility. They refused to be identified by name, saying they feared retribution.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1562892,00.html
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The Madhi Army will butcher several thousands Sunnis in response and that will make al-Qaeda far more popular as the protector of Sunnis even though their suicide bombers cause the killing in the first place.

[ECH1969]

1. The real violence will start in the next couple days.

[Disturbed]

2. How much does a person hate in order to burn their

fellow human beings alive? This is brutal beyond my understanding.

[ECH1969]

4. The hatred in Iraq is based on the mountain of death over the past three decades

numbering into the hundreds of thousands that has led to hatreds that will last decades.

[Alamom]

6. Mine, too. n/t

[Swagman]

3. Still, dying this was isn't as bad as in Saddam's days

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[newyawker99]

5. Hi Swagman!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Toots]

7. Aren't we all glad the US guarded the oil and not the ammo dumps?

Thousands of tons of explosives and armaments were left unguarded by US forces and now we see what happened to it...