Gunmen Wearing Iraqi Uniforms Kill Sunni Tribal Leader and his Family!

Now I can not help but wonder if they were really US trained Iraqi army or "insurgents" as the article claims....

Baghdad — Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms broke into the home of a senior Sunni leader on Wednesday and killed him, his three sons and his son-in-law on the outskirts of Baghdad, his brother and an Interior Ministry official said.

Khadim Sarhid al-Hemaiyem was the leader of the Sunni Batta tribe and the brother of a parliamentary candidate in the Dec. 15 election, Major Falah al-Mohammedawi said. Another of the slain man's brothers said the family has been attacked before.

“A group of gunmen with Iraqi army uniforms and vehicles broke into my brother's house in the Hurriyah area and sprayed them with machine gun fire, killing him along with three sons and his son-in law,” said his brother, Nima Sarhid Al-Hemaiyem.

“His eldest son was assassinated one month ago in the Taji area, northern Baghdad, when unidentified men shot and killed him.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051123.wiraq1123/BNStory/International/

:(

he did his dirty work before he left Iraq. And apparently very well. :(

(Who remembers it would have been a good thing if we'd never PUT him there in the first place.)

:(

One hopes that victims such as the aforementioned will be added to the tally of those killed during the War in Iraq.

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Welcome to DU!! :toast:

all levels of the Iraqi government.

"Heckuva job, Paulie."

Did something good (a rare case) == "pro-Iraqi forces"

These are axioms, BTW, not dependent on any observation of the actual perpetrators.

Edit: it appears we are drifting deeper into a civil war between the Iraqi nationalists on one side and pro-Iranian schismatics on the other. The Kurds seem to be trying to stay out of it while picking up such crumbs as may fall in their direction, e.g. Kirkuk.