Fighters have executed 15 Iraqis after ambushing their vehicle on a road north of the city of Falluja, police said.
| "Fighters" is al-Jizzles talk for "terrorists." If I ever get caught up on all the other stuff I'm doing, I'm going to write an autotranslator to correct that sort of terminology misuse. |
| I'll help with the dictionary ... and the thesaurus ... |
The armed men ordered the passengers out of the vehicle and lined them up before shooting them in daylight on Sunday afternoon, police on Monday quoted witnesses as saying. They did not specify whether the victims were civilians or off-duty security personnel but said they were believed to be from the neighbouring town of Saqlawiyah, in the Sunni Triangle. Pools of blood covered the scene of the attack on the desert road, next to empty cases of pistol and AK-47 machine gun bullets, suggesting that the victims were shot from close range, an AFP correspondent reported. The road was blocked for nearly 10 hours until tribesmen from the neighbouring Sunni town of Ramadi removed the bodies, police added. |