New Iraqi Butcher

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New Iraqi Butcher
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Sat, 07-17-2004 - 7:33pm
This is why Bush so hurry to transfer power to new Iraqi dictator. To kill by the hand of its puppet.

Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses

By Paul McGeough in Baghdad

July 17, 2004

Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs.

They say Dr Allawi told onlookers the victims had each killed as many as 50 Iraqis and they "deserved worse than death".

The Prime Minister's office has denied the entirety of the witness accounts in a written statement to the Herald, saying Dr Allawi had never visited the centre and he did not carry a gun.

But the informants told the Herald that Dr Allawi shot each young man in the head as about a dozen Iraqi policemen and four Americans from the Prime Minister's personal security team watched in stunned silence.

http://truthout.org/docs_04/071704Z.shtml

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Sat, 07-17-2004 - 8:44pm
Of course! He couldn't possibly have pushed the transfer ahead of schedule in order to avoid or minimize the predicted violence by insurgents trying to disrupt the handover. This makes much more sense...

~mark~