Burned to Death
Last Friday, while many Americans were engaging in "Black Friday" shopping and seeing how many pounds they gained from the Thanksgiving feast the day before, six Sunni Iraquis were dragged from their mosque by Shiite militia men, doused with kerosene, and set afire, apparently in retaliation for a bombing the day before that killed 200 Shiites Iraqis. You can read the Associated Press account here.
This story has been attacked by the U.S. miliary and its amen chorus in the rightwing blogs, which I find very disturbing. Not that the Army shouldn't speak out if they truly believe a story that makes the U.S. effort look like hell is wrong, but that the military appears to be coordinating with rightwing blogs in the U.S. As a journalist, I can tell you the AP is highly professional and appears to have confirmed this story six ways to Sunday.