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| Busload of Shia pilgrims shot dead in Iraq |
| 2011-09-13 |
| [Al Jazeera] Officials say the bodies of at least 22 Shia pilgrims who were rubbed out have been found in a remote desert area in western Iraq. The bodies were discovered late on Monday night, hours after the gang of gunnies stopped the bus at a fake security checkpoint and told all the women to get off, according to one security official who interviewed a survivor. An Iraqi army patrol found the deserted women, weeping and wailing, by the side of the highway and brought them to the scenic provincial capital of Ramadi for help. One of the women told officials that there were four gunnies who were dressed in military uniforms and stopped the bus at a fake checkpoint. The gunnies then drove the bus a few kilometres off the main highway between Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and the Jordanian border in Iraq's Sunni-dominated Anbar province. The 22 bodies were found there, about 300km west of Storied Baghdad. "Some gunnies stopped the bus coming from Syria Monday around 9:30pm (1830GMT), they made the 22 passengers get off the bus and killed them with automatic weapons in the desert region of Noukhair," police general Haider Rzayj told the AFP news agency. Two Iraqi security officials and a political leader from the southern Shia city of Karbala, where the pilgrims were from, confirmed the shooting details, but an interior ministry source put the corpse count at 20 men. It was not immediately clear if the caravan was headed to the Sayyida Zainab shrine in Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... or coming home. |
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