Jawad al-Bulani, an independent Shi'ite politician, told state-run Al-Iraqiyah television that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered an investigation into the killings.
Tal Afar's mayor, Brigadier General Najim al-Juburi, said on March 28 that 18 people were detained on suspicion of their involvement in the reprisal attacks, with a security source saying that many of them were police officers.
The police officers on March 27 killed some 70 Sunni men, in what appeared to be reprisal attacks for two suicide truck bombings that killed at least 85 Shi'a in the town.
(AFP, Reuters)
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Tal Afar's mayor, Brigadier General Najim al-Juburi, said on March 28 that 18 people were detained on suspicion of their involvement in the reprisal attacks, with a security source saying that many of them were police officers.
The police officers on March 27 killed some 70 Sunni men, in what appeared to be reprisal attacks for two suicide truck bombings that killed at least 85 Shi'a in the town.
(AFP, Reuters)
On The Verge Of Civil War
On The Verge Of Civil War
The Imam Al-Mahdi Army on parade (epa)
HAS THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ BECOME A CIVIL WAR? Many observers have concluded that the tit-for-tat sectarian violence that emerged after the February 2006 bombing of a mosque in Samarra has become a full-blown civil war.... (more)
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