Saturday, November 30, 2013

Old evils re-emerge

The disgusting habit of policemen and soldiers kidnapping and killing innocent civilians has re-emerged in Baghdad. It is the worst sort of violence because it undermines all confidence and is the action of truly venomously evil men. In the days of Anglo-American rule we used to euphemistically say that people "dressed in police / army uniforms" had conducted the kidnapping and killing and the Western press would swallow the PR lie and print the lie as the truth. The real truth being that these were soldiers, these were policemen, conducting these evil acts. All credit to Malaki, he does not descend to the PR gutter that the Western administration of Iraq used. He calls a spade a spade. None the less, it is profoundly sad to see this evil back again.

39 dead in throwback to Iraq's sectarian bloodshed    
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Khaleej Times - 30 November, 2013
The killings come amid a surge in violence that has seen victims snatched from their homes, only for their corpses to be found later.

Authorities found the bodies of 28 people on Friday, most of them kidnapped by men in army uniforms, and attacks killed 11 more in Iraq.

The killings come amid a surge in violence that has seen victims snatched from their homes, only for their corpses to be found later, fuelling fears Iraq is slipping back into the worst of the bloodshed that plagued it from 2005 to 2007.

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