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joeybee12

(56,177 posts) Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:19 PM Oct 2013

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'Extremely alarming': Iraq executes 42 people in two days

Iraq executed 42 people, including a woman, for mass killings and other "terrorism" offenses over the past week, the justice ministry and the United Nations said following a surge in sectarian violence.

The U.N. mission in Iraq said on Thursday it was concerned about the executions, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Amnesty International described the news as "extremely alarming."

Both urged Baghdad to immediately suspend the death penalty, which rights groups say has been used with increasing frequency by Iraqi authorities in recent years.

Sixty-eight death sentences were carried out in 2011, according to Amnesty.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/11/20911972-extremely-alarming-iraq-executes-42-people-in-two-days?lite

Thank God we brought Democracy to the Middle East!

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'Extremely alarming': Iraq executes 42 people in two days (Original Post) joeybee12 Oct 2013 OP

It's GWB's legacy Blue Owl Oct 2013 #1

And what sickens me is that the msm still thinks the "surge" worked... joeybee12 Oct 2013 #2

pRick Perry is jealous. nt Mnemosyne Oct 2013 #3

they should send thank you letters to george double u spanone Oct 2013 #4

Sunni insurgents are blowing the shit out of Iraq. Some hang for their activities. Comrade Grumpy Oct 2013 #5

Blue Owl

(50,514 posts)

1. It's GWB's legacy

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:35 PM

Oct 2013

Somewhere the Texacutioner is chuckling...

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

2. And what sickens me is that the msm still thinks the "surge" worked...

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:36 PM

Oct 2013

Delayed the inevitable.

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)

3. pRick Perry is jealous. nt

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 12:59 PM

Oct 2013

spanone

(135,886 posts)

4. they should send thank you letters to george double u

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:01 PM

Oct 2013

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

5. Sunni insurgents are blowing the shit out of Iraq. Some hang for their activities.

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 01:14 PM

Oct 2013

It's not like they're executing people engaged in civil disobedience. That said, I oppose the death penalty.

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