56 orang mati dibantai oleh pejihad Islam. Kalo nurut orang Islam  pembela para 
pejihad ini, pembantaian itu tentunya cuma sekedar reaksi  atas tindakan Amrik 
dan barat (mungkin Israel jg), jadi ga salah tuh  ngebantai 56 orang tsb.

Cuma aja, hehehe.... yg mati ini orang Islam jg. Tp gpp, pokoknya salah 
kafirnya.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110329/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

Gunmen kill 56 in grisly Iraq hostage siege

By LARA JAKES, Associated Press Lara Jakes, Associated Press  – Tue Mar 29, 
7:07 pm ET
BAGHDAD – Gunmen wearing military uniforms over  explosives belts charged into 
a 
government building in Saddam Hussein's  hometown Tuesday in an attack that 
left 
56 people dead, including 15  hostages who were shot execution-style.
The five-hour standoff in Tikrit ended only when the  attackers blew themselves 
up in one of the bloodiest days in Iraq this  year.
American troops who were nearby as part of an  advising mission with Iraqi 
forces responded to the attack, and some  U.S. soldiers received minor wounds, 
said military spokesman Col. Barry  Johnson. The U.S. troops dropped back after 
Iraqi forces took control,  Johnson said.
The assault was reminiscent of the bloodshed that was  common during the worst 
days of the conflict as Iraq was pushed to the  brink of civil war. Attacks 
have 
ebbed in recent years, but the looming  deadline for the U.S. troops to 
withdraw 
from the country along with  political unrest elsewhere in the Mideast have 
raised fears the country  could return to violence.
The standoff in Tikrit, the capital of Salahuddin  province 80 miles (130 
kilometers) north of Baghdad, began around 1 p.m.  when the attackers blew up a 
car outside the council headquarters to  create a diversion before launching 
their raid.
Wearing military uniforms — including one with a high  rank — the gunmen 
identified themselves as Iraqi soldiers at a security  checkpoint outside the 
government compound but opened fire on guards  when they were told they needed 
to be searched.
They later set fire to the bodies of the three slain  provincial councilmen in 
a 
defiant show of how insurgents maintain the  ability to carry out brutal 
attacks 
despite years of U.S.-Iraqi military  efforts against them.
"Why did they shoot him and set fire to his poor  body?" said Salahuddin 
government spokesman Mohammed al-Asi, trying not  to weep when confirming the 
killing of lawmaker Mehdi al-Aaran, an  elderly man who headed the council's 
religious affairs committee.
Speaking in a muted voice, Salahuddin Gov. Ahmed  Abdullah called the attack "a 
tragic incident carried out by ruthless  terrorists."
Iraqi officials were quick to blame al-Qaida in Iraq  for the slaughter, noting 
that execution-style killings and suicide  bombers are hallmarks of the 
extremist group. A senior intelligence  official in Baghdad likened the attack 
to al-Qaida's hostage raid last  fall on a Catholic church in Baghdad that left 
68 dead and stunned the  nation.
Tuesday's attack left 56 people dead and 98 wounded,  including government 
workers, security forces and bystanders, said  Salahuddin health director Dr. 
Raied Ibrahim. Many died in the volleys  of gunfire and explosions.
Among the dead were councilman Abdullah Jebara, a  vocal al-Qaida foe; the 
council's health committee chairman, Wathiq  al-Sammaraie; and Iraqi journalist 
Sabah al-Bazi, a correspondent for  Al-Arabiya satellite TV channel and a 
freelancer for CNN and Reuters.
Members of Iraq's parliament immediately called for  an investigation into how 
the band of eight or nine insurgents could  pull off the attack and paralyze a 
mostly Sunni Muslim city that was  once a hotbed for al-Qaida in Iraq and 
Saddam 
sympathizers.
Officials are particularly sensitive about the  ability of Iraqi security 
forces 
to protect the country as U.S. troops  plan to leave at the end of the year.
"We denounce this sorrowful act, where insurgents  with military uniforms could 
break into the council building," said  parliamentarian Suhad al-Obedi, who 
represents Salahuddin province.  "This is a security breach."
It's not hard to buy uniforms on Iraqi streets, and  the ease and deadliness of 
the attack demonstrated sophisticated  planning by the gunmen.
"The gunmen were armed with grenades and began their  raid by firing at random 
at a reception room," said Ali Abdul-Rihman, a  spokesman for the governor. 
"Then they opened fire inside."
The provincial council meets at the headquarters  every Tuesday, but 
Abdul-Rihman said local lawmakers ended their  discussion early because there 
was little on their agenda. As a result,  he said, most of the lawmakers had 
already left the headquarters when  the assault began. 

Al-Asi, the provincial spokesman, said 15 people were taken hostage on  the 
headquarters' second floor, where the gunmen hurled grenades and  fired at 
security forces below. The hostages, including three lawmakers,  were each shot 
in the head, al-Asi said. 

Parliament lawmaker Qutayba al-Jabouri said security forces did not try  to 
negotiate with the gunmen since they were under assault. Gov.  Abdullah 
described a fierce shootout between the gunmen and Iraqi  security forces who 
surrounded the building. 

Baghdad University political analyst Hassan Kamil called Tuesday's  attacks 
"another indication that the insurgents are no way thinking of  giving up the 
struggle in Iraq." 

"It is a show of force aiming at convincing people that despite the  setbacks, 
the insurgency is still active," Kamil said. "Security is  still fragile." 

___ 
Associated Press writers Hamid Ahmed, Mazin Yahya and Qassim Abdul-Zahra  in 
Baghdad and Sameer N. Yacoub in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this  report.



      

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