An Inexplicable Small Massacre in Baghdad…….
“Assailants burst into the home of an Iraqi campaign volunteer before dawn Monday, fatally shooting the man before they stabbed his pregnant wife and their five daughters to death, relatives and authorities said. A sixth child, the only son, was found hanging from a ceiling fan with key arteries severed, a cousin said. Over the last week and despite warnings that it was too dangerous, 47-year-old Hussein Majeed Marioush had been hanging campaign posters in the volatile mixed-sect district of Zafaraniya, a semi-rural area on the outskirts of southern Baghdad. He was a volunteer for Entifadh Qanbar, a secular candidate and longtime associate of the controversial politician Ahmad Chalabi. Both are running on the main Shiite Muslim ticket in parliamentary elections March 7. By late Monday, no clear motive had emerged in the killings…… "He said, 'No, there's a Shiite area that's safe and a Sunni area that's bad, and I'll only hang them on the Shiite side.' …..…”
I was intrigued by this sentence in this terrible story: “By late Monday, no clear motive had emerged in the killings “……..
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