3 Iraqis killed, warnings pinned to bodies

Source: AFP

Three farmers were killed and leaflets pinned to their bodies Wednesday, warning against co-operation with American and Iraqi forces in a brutal act of intimidation as thousands of U.S. troops leave.

The attack came a day after a suicide bombing at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad killed 59 people, most of them prospective soldiers, in the bloodiest attack in Iraq this year.

The violence, which saw 11 people killed overall on Wednesday, coincides with the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, when insurgents typically step up their activity.

In the village of Rabiyah, northeast of Baghdad in central Diyala province, 10 masked gunmen carrying machine-guns and silenced pistols and claiming to be members of al-Qaida raided the houses of three Shiite farmers, dragged them outside and shot them dead.

"They brought them outside of their homes and then shot them," said police Major Mohammed al-Karkhi. "Then they left leaflets on their bodies which said: 'This is the future for all those who co-operate with the U.S. military and Iraqi security forces'."




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Besides turn them against each other?

bush was the first terrorist to enter.

...aren't they?

Without U.S. troops all over, what've they got to unify and focus the actively violent people disaffected with the current system?

Tough for them.

ironically,
Bright