Pr0LiFiX
April 23rd, 2007, 10:38 PM
It looks like the civil war is getting worse...
BASHIKA, Iraq -- Gunmen have killed 23 members of the Yazidi religious minority in an apparent revenge massacre in northern Iraq. Witnesses say gunmen stopped a bus and separated out followers of other faiths, whose lives were spared. Yazidis are a small group concentrated mostly around the northern city of Mosul, 360 km northwest of Baghdad. They are primarily Kurdish, and worship an angel figure that some Muslims and Christians consider the devil. A police official in Ninevah province, where Mosul is the capital, says the execution-style killings were in response to the killing two weeks ago of a Yazidi woman who had recently fallen in love with a Muslim man, then converted to Islam and ran off with him. She was later kidnapped by relatives and stoned to death. A grainy video purporting to show her death has appeared on Iraqi web sites. After the killings, hundreds of Yazidis took to the streets of Bashika, where the victims were from. Many Muslim residents closed themselves in their homes, fearing reprisal. Also yesterday, in Baghdad, two suicide car bombers attacked a police station, killing 13 people and injuring 82.
Source (CLICK HERE) (http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/World/2007/04/23/4113292-sun.html)
BASHIKA, Iraq -- Gunmen have killed 23 members of the Yazidi religious minority in an apparent revenge massacre in northern Iraq. Witnesses say gunmen stopped a bus and separated out followers of other faiths, whose lives were spared. Yazidis are a small group concentrated mostly around the northern city of Mosul, 360 km northwest of Baghdad. They are primarily Kurdish, and worship an angel figure that some Muslims and Christians consider the devil. A police official in Ninevah province, where Mosul is the capital, says the execution-style killings were in response to the killing two weeks ago of a Yazidi woman who had recently fallen in love with a Muslim man, then converted to Islam and ran off with him. She was later kidnapped by relatives and stoned to death. A grainy video purporting to show her death has appeared on Iraqi web sites. After the killings, hundreds of Yazidis took to the streets of Bashika, where the victims were from. Many Muslim residents closed themselves in their homes, fearing reprisal. Also yesterday, in Baghdad, two suicide car bombers attacked a police station, killing 13 people and injuring 82.
Source (CLICK HERE) (http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/World/2007/04/23/4113292-sun.html)