24 November 2010
Police: 2 Christian brothers shot, killed in Iraq
Gunmen shot and killed two Christian brothers Monday in a northern Iraqi city in
the latest in a spate of attacks targeting the religious minority, Iraqi police
said.
Christians have been fleeing Iraq amid a series of attacks against them by militants who have
vowed a campaign of violence against the country's Christian minority.
In the most serious attack, 68 people died after a group of militants with
explosives strapped to their bodies held about 120 people hostage in a Baghdad
church last month before Iraqi authorities stormed the building.
Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) north of Baghdad is home to a sizable
Christian population that has repeatedly come under attack from Sunni militants
who view Christians as nonbelievers.
Brothers Saad and Raad Hannah were working in their auto mechanic shop in
Mosul when gunmen burst in and shot them dead before fleeing, police said. A
local hospital worker confirmed the deaths. The officials spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Last week, two Christians in Mosul were sitting in their living room when
gunmen burst into the house and shot them. That same night a house belonging to
a Christian family in a different neighborhood of the city was also bombed,
although no one was killed in that incident.
Earlier this month, five people were killed during a series of coordinated
bombings targeting Christian homes and neighborhoods in Baghdad. Those attacks
came after Iraqi authorities beefed up security at churches across Baghdad in
response to the hostage crisis.
The attacks against Christians have drawn international condemnation, and some countries in Europe have flown Christians wounded in the church attack out of Iraq for medical treatment. But Iraqi church officials have also pleaded with the Christian minority to not be driven out of their homeland.
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Yes, other Christians martyred in the Arab and other countries condemned in Islam. Because this is the true nature of this bloody terrorist religion. Why the exclamation!!?? That God is permitted to enter these martyrs heaven and reveal to honest Muslims really sensible of their Prophet and the fact Islam
Posted by: peter | 25 November 2010
thank you
Posted by: تحميل فيلم ابن القنصل | 18 December 2010
That God is permitted to enter these martyrs heaven and reveal to honest Muslims really sensible of their Prophet and the fact Islam
Posted by: Browsergames | 04 January 2011
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