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Politics : The Truth About Islam
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To: steve harris who wrote (9577)8/16/2007 7:30:12 AM
From: Ichy Smith  Read Replies (2) of 20106
 
The defenders of Islam have blood on their hands.

Yup and this is what they are defending.....Ah yes religious Freedom Muslim style.........

From the TO Star

Iraq bombings 'act of ethnic cleansing'


Aug 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Kim Gamel
Associated Press

BAGHDAD–Rescuers used bare hands and shovels yesterday to claw through clay houses shattered by an onslaught of suicide bombings that killed at least 250 and as many as 500 members of an ancient religious sect in the deadliest attack of the Iraq war.

The U.S. military blamed Al Qaeda in Iraq, and an American commander called the assault an "act of ethnic cleansing."

The victims of Tuesday night's co-ordinated attack by four suicide bombers were Yazidis, a small Kurdish-speaking sect targeted by Muslim extremists who consider its members to be blasphemers.

The blasts in two villages near the Syrian border crumbled buildings, trapping families beneath mud bricks and other wreckage. Entire neighbourhoods were flattened.

"This is an act of ethnic cleansing, if you will, almost genocide," Maj.-Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, told CNN, noting that Yazidis live in a remote part of Nineveh province far from Iraq's conflict.

Last month, Mixon said he proposed reducing American troop levels in Nineveh and predicted the province would shift to Iraqi government control as early as this month. It was unclear whether that projection would hold after Tuesday's staggering casualties.

Death estimates ranged widely.

thestar.com
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