Sunni Men In Iraq Killed Execution-Style
Victims Had Received Death Threats For Meeting With Shiites
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A medical worker inspects bodies of six Iraqi Sunnis in a hospital morgue in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 3, 2007. The dead men had received death threats for meeting with local Shiites, and were killed Saturday in the nearby town of Youssifiyah in execution-style slayings, police said. (AP Photo/Haidar Fatehi)
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The attack near Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of the Iraqi capital, were apparently connected to rising sectarian violence that has included the claimed abduction and execution Friday of at least 14 members of the Shiite-led security forces.
Also Saturday, the U.S. military said it killed "key terrorists" who were using anti-aircraft artillery to fire at American military helicopters near Taji, north of Baghdad.
The men gunned down Saturday — all relatives from the Mashhada tribe — were killed after gunmen stormed the family's house at dawn, police said.
The victims in Youssifiyah were separated from women and children and shot dead in their home, police said.
Their bodies were transferred to a hospital morgue in the neighboring town of Mahmoudiyah, where AP Television News footage showed them wrapped in blankets and lined up on the metal floor of a refrigeration chamber. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
The motive of the brutal attack could not be independently verified. But police, citing information from surviving relatives, said the victims had received threats from Sunni insurgents after participating in a reconciliation conference with Shiites last month.
The conference was held in Mahmoudiyah in late February.
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