Mutilated and killed, Iraqi boy is sectarian victim

[Barrett808]

Mutilated and killed, Iraqi boy is sectarian victim
By Michael Georgy

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Baghdad's sectarian hit squads don't spare the young.

The family of 12-year-old Hani Saadoun has been traumatized by that reality since his tortured body, mutilated by electric drills, was found on Tuesday. They had been in a state of fear since he failed to return home for lunch a day earlier.

It seems gunmen in three cars cornered him as he headed to work, helping out at his father's parking lot, Interior Ministry sources and relatives said.

...

Saadoun's body was found dumped in southern Baghdad's violent, mostly Sunni Arab, district of Dora. It bore the hallmarks of sectarian tit-for-tat killings that have exploded since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February.

The youngster, with a bullet hole in his head and another through the chest, was blindfold and his hands bound. He had been whipped with cables, tormented by electric drills and his body dragged through the streets behind a car.

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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-05-23T142632Z_01_GEO347014_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-BOY.xml

[DS1]

1. You see what happens when you give people freedom?

How could any of this by my fault?

/Rummy


and the answer of course, is, that Saddam was the best thing the Iraqis had keeping themselves from killing each other

[krkaufman]

8. Had they opted to study history, rather than repeating it...

... the incompetents in charge might have looked to what happened in Yugoslavia after the end of Tito's reign.

I continue to hope that Bush will be considered one of the greatest leaders in history, 'cause that would mean that the impossible was somehow achieved on nearly every disastrous front he appears to be failing to address.

[Cronus Protagonist]

15. I'm reminded of lynching

And Matthew Shepard. I guess democracy isn't pretty or something like that...

[Barrett808]

16. The Potemkin government in Iraq only superficially resembles "democracy"

Just enough to fool the 30% of Americans who still approve of Bush.

[psychopomp]

2. RIP kid

Sheesh. Things have gotten quite hellish!

[CoffeeCat]

3. Please don't forget....

We're turning a corner, making progress and the insurgency is in its last throes.

Mission Accomplished!

...or something like that.

[leesa]

4. Thank heavens the US doesn't do this sort of thing!!!

:sarcasm:

[UpInArms]

5. Dimson: "Freedom is moving"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/05/22/national/w123501D43.DTL&type=politics

:cry:

:mad:

[Blue Diadem]

6. That poor child

:cry:

[marylanddem]

7. Pure evil. The bastards that started this "war" deserve a

Nuremburg of their own. Bastards.

[saigon68]

9. No difference than Frying a child with napalm

Lots of death here

"FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH"

[Barrett808]

10. Agree with your sentiment, but suggest there's an important difference

There's something more intimate about torturing a child up close and personal, drilling holes in his face and such. Dropping cluster bombs and napalm has a more sterile quality. It takes real hatred to torture somebody as brutally as this; killing by remote control requires no emotion at all.

[saigon68]

11. So True, Calley's Men machine gunned them "up close and personal;"

Like they beat hose guys to death at Abu Ghraib with their fists and sticks

[Barrett808]

12. Now we have Haditha.

:(

[warrior1]

13. bush owns this

[Patchuli]

14. Poor little guy

I hope his murderers ROT IN HELL!!!! Why the f*ck can't they leave the babies out of this?!!!