More and more sectarian violence in Iraq. Sects taking revenge on each other and, thus, causing the situation to escalate
H/t to commenter Rudi.
The Seattle Times reports that Iraqi soldiers did nothing to prevent Shiite militiamen from burning six Sunnis alive.
Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left worship services today, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.
The savage revenge attack for Thursday’s slaying of 215 people in the Shiite Sadr City slum occurred as members of the Mahdi Army militia burned four mosques, and several homes while killing an unknown number of Sunni residents in the once-mixed Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad.
Gunmen loyal to radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began taking over the neighborhood this summer and most of its Sunni residents already had fled.
The reports were the most serious allegations of retribution in Baghdad the day after Sunni insurgents killed 215 people and wounded 257 with five car bombs and mortar fire in the capital’s Sadr City Shiite slum.
Rudi added the following to the link: “The Bush incompetence and execution in Iraq is now criminal.”
This sentiment might be understandable, but it holds no water. No Bush administration official ordered this, it were not even American soldiers who let this terrible crime happen: it were Iraqi soldiers who fall under the command of the Iraqi government.
Lastly, I wonder about what sect those soldiers are from. Something tells me that they are probably Shiites themselves as well.
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