Detained Egypt, Saudi suspects lynched in Iraq second city

[ECH1969]

Eleven suspected foreign fighters from Egypt and Saudi Arabia were seized by gunmen from a prison in Iraq's largely Shiite second city of Basra Wednesday and all but one of them lynched, police said.

The bodies of three of them were found in the city centre close to the offices of the state-owned South Oil Company.

The corpses of another seven were found in a southwestern neighbourhood of Basra.

The attack on the suspected Sunni militants came amid a wave of anger across Shiite central and southern Iraq over a bomb attack on one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines.

http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=060222205934.cx7lvjis.php

[seriousstan]

1. I thought tthis was a "civil war" and not one fought by foreign fighters.

[Tempest]

2. There are foreign fighters

Just not nearly as many as BushCo would have you believe.

[ECH1969]

3. Most of al-Qaeda in Iraq are actually disaffected Iraqis

[joefree1]

4. Well, Bushh has made Iraq the new terrorist recruitment center

We're dying in Iraq so terrorist don't have to come here to kill Americans.

[iamthebandfanman]

8. lol

we are there fighting, arent we ?
i think that kinda makes it not a civil war without foreign fighters, wouldnt ya think?
hehe.

[NYC Liberal]

5. Hey, that's just what free people do, right?

That's what Rummy told me!

[saigon68]

7. who is the ugly creature in the photo above ?

[NYC Liberal]

10. Babs and Poopy Bush.

[saigon68]

19. I recognized him

I can't believe that mop head on the left is her.

Yikes. She could scare the hell out of Frankenstein's monster

[Tempest]

6. They're now saying the men were Iraqi Sunnis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_basra_dc

[ECH1969]

9. They were sunnis

But, sunnis from different countries then Iraq.

[Tempest]

20. You didn't read the article, did you?

"Among those killed in the apparent reprisal attack for the bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine earlier in the day were two Egyptians, police sources said. The others were Iraqis."


Out of the 11 killed, 9 were Iraqis.

[leftchick]

11. Iraqi Sunni prisoners killed in apparent reprisal (Basra )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_basra_dc

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen in police uniforms seized 11 Sunni men suspected of being insurgents from a prison in the mainly Shi'ite city of Basra in southern Iraq on Wednesday and later killed them, police said.

Among those killed in the apparent reprisal attack for the bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine earlier in the day were two Egyptians, police sources said. The other nine were Iraqis.

The attackers arrived in a convoy of 16 cars.

All 11 prisoners were found dead later with gunshot wounds.

Six bodies were found in Republic Street in Basra. Three were discovered in the Sekak district of the city. The other two were found in Leader Street.

[MadMaddie]

12. Wow....* has opened the gates of Hell

The * cabal has destablized that country and possibly the region. Iran is giving money to the Palestenians....

[Tempest]

13. Earlier it was reported the men were foreign fighters

Looks like the truth has finally come out.

[uppityperson]

14. I cannot think of what to write.

hell. I keep thinking it can't get worse, or at least it can't be as bad as I think it is. But it is. So sorry world.

[bemildred]

15. Weren't the guys that blew up the mosque in "police uniforms" too?

:think:

[madmark]

16. al quada cannot survive in open with a hostile local population;

particularly a hostile middle eastern population that can easily discern a foriegn fighter from an Iraqis. Good for the Iraqis to start killing al quada because we sure have been doing a piss poor job at it.

[tkmorris]

17. Do you really believe that?

You think that the Iraqis killed today a group of "Al Quada" (sic)?

[madmark]

21. of course i do, local iraqis kill al quada all the time, they are better

at it than we are. That's why the idea that we have to stay there to keep Iraq from being an Al quada haven is a joke.

[rfkrfk]

18. mercenaries, foreign or otherwise, should expect rough treatment

some Iraqis don't like the attitude the isnurgents have that -->

Iraqi national treasures can blown up for our convienence.

.................
I can't say I blame the Irawuis all that much,