Al Qaeda Beheads Iraqi And Wife, Force Children To Watch
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three al Qaeda militants, including two sisters, beheaded their uncle and his wife, forcing the couple’s children to watch, Iraqi police said on Friday.
The militants considered that school guard Youssef al-Hayali was an infidel because he did not pray and wore western-style trousers, they told police interrogators after being arrested in Diyala province northwest of Baghdad.
The three cousins executed Hayali and his wife Zeinab Kamel at the all-boys school in Jalawlah in Diyala province, village police chief Captain Ahmed Khalifa said.
No further details were available.
Sunni Arab communities across Iraq have been turning against al Qaeda because of its indiscriminate killings and strict interpretation of Islam, which includes a ban on smoking in public and forcing schoolgirls to wear veils.
Sunni Arab tribal sheikhs have been organizing their young men into neighborhood police units to drive out al Qaeda, a practice which U.S. and Iraqi officials say has helped bring down violence levels across Iraq.
Security operations by U.S. and Iraqi troops have also been targeting al Qaeda in ethnically and religiously mixed Diyala in recent months after the Sunni Islamist fighters were driven out of western Anbar province.
The U.S. military said earlier in November that it was sending 3,000 soldiers home from the province but added that the overall number of forces in the province would not decrease.
The United States poured an extra 30,000 troops into Iraq from mid-February in a bid to stop the country from sliding into sectarian civil war.
U.S. and Iraqi officials say the troop “surge” and more efficient Iraqi security forces have also helped bring about sharp falls in U.S. military and Iraqi civilian casualties in the past two months.
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That picture looks way phonied up.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:17 pmToo much muscle tone in the face, and why is there a scarf wrapped around the neck area?
F’ing animals!
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:38 pmRefresh my memory: what was the distinction between mental illness and Islam again?
Two sisters beheading an uncle and aunt in front of their cousins. Truly inspired and inspiring.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 pmAnd also refresh my memory what uniforms these Al Qaeda folks were wearing and how the Geneva Conventions and the US Constitution cover the rights of illegal combatants?
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:23 pmDC
Don’t fear the reaper.
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 pmDammit, these “people” need flesh eating strep and 1918 h1n1 flu NOW. There is nothing about this that is rational.
November 23rd, 2007 at 5:39 pmOf course Harry and Nancy and all the other f’ing idiots will say this is our fault. “If we wore bedsheets too, this would never have happened!” That scumbag Murtha (please, please have that stroke I’ve been wishing on you)will probably try to pin this one on the Marines.
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:05 pmGlenn Beck says in his “An Inconvenient Book” that: “I have read the Koran and can tell you that I unequivocally believe that Islam is a religion of peace”
Oh really? There have been over 10,000 terrorist incidents since 9-11. Wanna guess how many of them involve Islamists?
Try ALL of them…. Why?
The inconvenient truth is that Glenn Beck much like many Americans, have not read the Koran or the Hadith. If they did, they wouldn’t make such asinine statements such as “Islam is the religion of peace”; or come to the equally asinine and ignorant conclusion that Beck has.
The murderers in this story are just following verses 9:5, 9:29, 2:190-193, 8:60, 2:216-217, 8:65-67, 9:111, 60:8-9, and 47:4. (There are many more). Religion of peace my ass.
And the West wants to negotiate with such barbarians? And ignorant dipshits like Beck want to sell a book with a lie about Islam in it? If he lies about Islam…what else is he lying about? How fucking stupid do these people think we are?
Wake the fuck up America! Stop listening to great pretenders like Beck and get a clue. You don’t negotiate with barbarians like the fucktards in this story. You kill them.
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:15 pmFuckin’ horrific.
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:31 pmMuscle tone in face is there as just recently dead, ( I’m a coroner, seen this stuff), also, left eye deviates up and out-not likely in a live person, also look at left frontal skull, big hole… not compatible with a liver person. possibly died of blow to head then beheaded?
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:01 pmSomething seems fishy about the story..
Ugly story, but the picture looks like a wasted terrorist. Effective enough, but it looks like the shooter jerked a little high and to the right about two inches.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 pmOk, for those of you who are new to dollard’s site and reuters:
First: Dollard often uses images that are not directly related to the story. This poor sap, probably has nothing to do with the guy who had his head loped off. The picture is more of an illustration than photojournalism.
Second: There is no way that this picture is from the original reuters story. Reuters does not show images like this in their articles. (although they probably should)
Don’t let the picture distract you from the story. Don’t believe everything you hear from reuters. AQ is fucked up and if you really need evidence ask anyone who has been there is Mike Yon, or Pat or Iggy or anyone else.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:31 pm