As recorded in the New York Times and Boston Globe.
New York Times:
Boston Globe:
"Gunmen kill kin of Iraq journalist" by Lori Hinnant/Associated Press November 27, 2007
BAGHDAD - Masked gunmen stormed the family home of a journalist who was associated with Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party and critical of the new Iraqi government, killing 11 relatives as they ate breakfast in a neighborhood known as a Shi'ite militia stronghold, colleagues said yesterday.
Dhia al-Kawaz, editor of the Jordan-based Asawat al-Iraq news agency, was in Jordan when his sisters, their husbands, and children were reportedly killed Sunday in north Baghdad's Shaab district. According to the news agency's website, witnesses said more than five masked men broke into the home and opened fire, then planted a bomb inside.
Seeing as the NYT ignored this, I can only conclude that an AmeriKan black-op is responsible!
"Sectarian militias killed 11 family members of Dhia al-Kawaz," the agency's statement said, apparently referring to Shi'ite death squads that frequently target minority Sunnis and their supporters.
The media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said Iraqi police at a nearby checkpoint failed to intervene as the family - Kawaz's sisters, their husbands, and their seven children - was slaughtered. Kawaz, his wife, and their children live elsewhere.
This just STINKS reader!
Mohammed Salman, a colleague of Kawaz in the Jordanian capital of Amman, confirmed the attack in Shaab, a Shi'ite militia stronghold where a group of Sunni and Shi'ite tribal sheiks was kidnapped last month before being freed in a US and Iraqi rescue operation.
Another colleague, who refused to be named because he feared reprisal, said Kawaz has received threats for his stance against the US occupation and sectarian strife in Iraq. The colleague refused to say whether Kawaz was Sunni or Shi'ite.
Huh?! CUI BONO, readers?!
The executed man was AGAINST U.S. OCCUPATION?!
That colleague said an SUV without license plates stopped at the gate of the house and threw two bombs as the two couples and their children ages 5 to 10 were eating breakfast.
Reporters Without Borders, based in Paris, said Kawaz had recently received threats from the Badr Brigade, the militant arm of Iraq's largest Shi'ite party the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
Oh, it was OUR SHIITES, not Sadr, huh?
Yeah, this REEKS of an American black-op!!
Kawaz, who declined to comment yesterday, has rejected the US occupation and accused majority-Shi'ite Iran of seeking to dominate the Iraqi government. The journalist is known as an advocate for Hussein's banned Ba'ath Party."
Yup, EL STINKO, all right!
