Iraq arrests
killers of 14 Pakistanis
Middle East Desk Report
KARBALA (Iraq)—Iraqi police have arrested two of their own officers who
confessed to killing 14 Pakistani pilgrims earlier this year, a force
spokesman said here Sunday.
The Pakistanis, travelling across the Iraqi desert to the shrine city of
Karbala, were dragged off their bus on September 2 and shot dead.A
civilian spokesman for the Iraqi police in Karbala, Rahman Mushawi, said
that two officers posted in a small town west of the city, Shalal
Mukhimit and Sami Abu Al-Hil, had been arrested.
“They confessed their responsibility in this killing,” he said. The
Pakistanis appear to have been victims in the sectarian war which has
divided Iraq’s Shiite and Sunni communities.
The insurgent group Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the
murders three weeks after they took place, in an Internet statement. |
