Substantially EFL
In an apparent revenge campaign, attackers separately targeted two people with close ties to the former regime of Saddam Hussein. In Najaf, gunmen on a bicycle attacked Damiyah Abbas, a former provincial official of Saddam’s Baath Party, and her 5-year-old son in front of her home on Saturday, witnesses said. The boy was killed, and his mother was in critical condition in a hospital, police Lt. Raed Abbas said. It was the third attack in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf - apparently part of a series of revenge killings against local members of Saddam’s Baathist regime, which brutally repressed Shiites. Damiyah Abbas was believed to have participated in the repression of a 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam’s government.
Sorry about the boy, he didn’t do anything wrong, but momma seems to have gotten what was coming to her. Memo to the Baathists: you really ought to turn yourself in to us, rather than wait for street justice. |