From an AP report in the UK Guardian:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Masked gunmen stopped two minivans carrying students north of Baghdad Sunday, ordered the passengers off, separated Shiites from Sunni Arabs, and killed the 21 Shiites ``in the name of Islam,'' a witness said.
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In the minibus ambush, a car and an SUV stopped the vehicles near the town of Qara Tappah, about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad and near Diyala province, electrician Haqi Ismail, 48, told The Associated Press.
Ismail said he had been driving his pickup truck behind the vans and was stopped too. About 15 masked men wearing traditional robes known as a dishdashas forced everyone out of the vehicles, he said.
``They asked us to show our IDs, and then instructed us to stand in a line, separating the Sunni from the Shiite due to the IDs and also due to the faces,'' said Ismail, a Shiite Kurd.
He said the gunmen ordered the Shiites to lie down and before they opened fire one shouted, ``On behalf of Islam, today we will dig a mass grave for you. You are traitors.''
As sad as this story is. It's just a reminder of the genocide which gripped Iraq for decades. By ANY account, the nightmare is passing.
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