APR - 8 Dead, 18 Kidnapped and 30 Houses Burned

Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)

...Sectarian Militas belonging to so-called Mahdi Army with police forces attacked Dora village 7 km northeast Baquba, killed 8 people, arrested 18 people and burned 30 houses forcing the residents for migration. This crime comes in coordination with the occupation and the government’s large military attacks targeting the residents of Diyala Province. The sectarian militias started these attacks against the civilians under this large military offense. The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) condemns this heinous crime, carries the occupation, the current government and the leaders of sectarian militias fully responsible...

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A river of corpses

Adnan Abuzaid, Azzaman

For centuries the Tigris River has provided Baghdadis with a rare delicacy: the famous Iraqi Samak mazkouf, a grilled fish. The Tigris was the main source of the fish, kept alive in a tank and you only needed to pick one for the restaurant owners to grill it for you on open fire. But a recent fatwa, or religious decree, issued by Muslim scholars in the city, forbids eating fish from the Tigris River. It is not because of pollution as the Tigris was, before the 2003 U.S. invasion, one of the cleanest rivers in the world. The decaying human corpses dumped into the river, according to the Fatwa, make eating its fish inhuman, unethical and anti-religious. Thanks to U.S. invasion, the Tigris River has turned into a cemetery of floating bodies. The murderous militias and death squads – which the invaders brought with them and nurtured – see the depths of the Tigris as a perfect place to hide their sectarian killings of innocent Iraqis by dumping the bodies of their victims there....

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