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PostSubject: IRAQ: GUNMEN KILL CHRISTIANS IN KIRKUK   IRAQ: GUNMEN KILL CHRISTIANS IN KIRKUK EmptyFri May 08, 2009 4:04 pm

IRAQ: GUNMEN KILL CHRISTIANS IN KIRKUK
Clergy believe attacks were religiously motivated.

ISTANBUL, April 28 (Compass Direct News) – Gunmen in Iraq shot five Chaldean Catholic Christians in their Kirkuk homes on Sunday (April 26) in two separate attacks, killing three and injuring two. Cousins Suzan Latif David and Muna Banna David were killed at 10 p.m. in a suburb of the northern Iraqi city. Within a few minutes, Yousif Shaba and his sons Thamir and Basil were also shot in the same area, leaving the 17-year-old Basil dead. Yousif Shaba and Thamir were in critical condition. One of nine suspects arrested is from the former insurgent stronghold of Ramadi and has suspected links to Al Qaeda, a source told Compass. Chaldean Christians have been hardest hit in the northern city of Mosul, where thousands of families have fled since an uptick in violence started last October, but Kirkuk has largely avoided the sectarian bloodshed of the region. For this reason clergy believe the five Christians were targeted purely for their religion. “They were peaceful Christian families, not involved in any political affiliation or such activities,” said Father Emanuel Youkhana of Christian Aid Program Nohadra Iraq. “What were they involved in that they be targeted in such a brutal way?
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