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To: Lucretius who wrote (333080)	3/28/2007 10:25:04 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 436258

well at least the surge is working well... +++++ Gunmen kill 50 in Iraqi town: officials Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:28am ET18 MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni district in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar overnight, killing about 50 people in apparent reprisal for bombings in a Shi'ite area, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday. The attack was on the Sunni district of al-Wihda in Tal Afar, where tensions have been rising between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim residents, mostly Turkish-speaking ethnic Turkmen. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, ordered a committee to be formed to investigate allegations the gunmen included a number of policemen, an official in his office said. There has been a sharp upsurge in violence in recent days outside Baghdad, epicenter of the communal bloodshed, where thousands of U.S. and Iraqi security forces are focusing their efforts to halt a slide to full-scale civil war. "Shi'ite armed groups killed Sunni men inside their homes. More than 50 were killed," said Brigadier Najim al-Jubouri, mayor of Tal Afar, which is close to the Syrian border and the regional capital of Mosul.