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18 People Abducted in Baghdad Are Found Dead 18 People Abducted in Baghdad Are Found Dead
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BAGHDAD — Eighteen people were found dead in an apparent execution-style killing on Friday, their bodies dumped on a farm near the predominantly Sunni neighborhood where they were rounded up the night before, according to the police. BAGHDAD — Eighteen people were found dead in an apparent execution-style killing on Friday, their bodies dumped on a farm near the predominantly Sunni neighborhood where they had been rounded up the night before, according to the police.
Armed men in sports utility vehicles and dressed in military uniforms swarmed into the neighborhood of Mashahdi in northern Baghdad late on Thursday and singled out 18 people, taking them from separate residences, the police said, quoting witness accounts. The bodies of the victims, who were all Sunnis, were discovered in the morning riddled with bullets, the police said. Armed men in sport utility vehicles and dressed in military uniforms swarmed into the neighborhood of Mashahdi in northern Baghdad late on Thursday and singled out 18 people, taking them from separate residences, the police said, quoting witness accounts. The bodies of the victims, who were all Sunnis, were discovered in the morning riddled with bullets, the police said.
The victims included a leader from the Dulaimi tribe — one of the largest and most prominent Sunni tribes in Iraq — his son, a local municipal official and an army and police officer.The victims included a leader from the Dulaimi tribe — one of the largest and most prominent Sunni tribes in Iraq — his son, a local municipal official and an army and police officer.
A farmer in the area, Kareem al-Jasim, said he had witnessed the roundup in Mashahdi by men “dressed in military uniforms” who searched houses about an hour, taking the municipal employee along with them in an apparent show of official business. “Whenever they arrested someone I could hear women shouting ‘please don’t take him,’ ” he said in an interview. “They said that they will just ask them some questions and release them, but we found them all killed in the morning.” A farmer in the area, Kareem al-Jasim, said he had witnessed the roundup in Mashahdi by men “dressed in military uniforms” who searched houses for about an hour, taking the municipal employee along with them in an apparent show of official business. “Whenever they arrested someone, I could hear women shouting, ‘Please don’t take him,’ ” he said in an interview. “They said that they will just ask them some questions and release them, but we found them all killed in the morning.”
A day earlier, at least three incidents of execution-style killings emerged that recalled the type of sectarian violence that rattled Iraq in 2006 and 2007. In Tikrit Province north of Baghdad, seven laborers were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen and found decapitated, a police official said Friday.
Also on Friday, in two separate attacks in Baghdad, two civilians were killed when improvised bombs fastened to their vehicles exploded, the police said. In other lethal violence reported Friday by the police and medical sources, five civilians were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in Radhwaniya, a Sunni neighborhood of western Baghdad. Three male corpses, apparently tortured and shot in the head, were found in the Mamil area of eastern Baghdad, a Shiite majority neighborhood. And six women in a house in the southeast Baghdad neighborhood of Ghadeer were all found shot and killed, apparently by assailants who had used silencers.
At least 29 people were killed in markets and shopping areas outside of Baghdad on Thursday, according to a report by The Associated Press that quoted the police. A day earlier, at least three episodes of execution-style killings were reported, reminiscent of the sectarian violence that rattled Iraq in 2006 and 2007.
At least 29 people were killed in markets and shopping areas outside Baghdad on Thursday, according to a report by The Associated Press that quoted the police.