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“You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil, they’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil.”

  • Police, not militants, executed 69 Iraqi prisoners in staged attack: sources
    http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/police-not-militants-executed-69-iraqi-prisoners-staged-attack-so

    “The convoy protection force fiercely responded to the terrorist attack,” Governor Sadiq Madloul told reporters.

    But a police captain, a second police officer and a senior local official from where the prisoners died in Hilla, all speaking on condition of anonymity while giving an account that differed from the official line, told Reuters no attack took place, and the police had executed the 69 men.

    A third police source who would not contradict the account that the convoy had come under attack nevertheless confirmed that all 69 had been killed and said some had not died in the crossfire but were gunned down to prevent them from escaping.

    The deaths in Hilla came less than a week after the killing of 52 prisoners in Baquba, a regional capital north of Baghdad.

    The police account there also was that the prisoners had died in the crossfire during a battle with insurgents. But local officials including the mayor and the provincial governor, medical staff at the morgue and relatives of the dead all said the victims were gunned down in their jail cells.