Saturday 31 December 2011

Gunmen kill five Iraq Sunni militia: police (Reuters)

Union members and human rights activists hold a banner that reads ' Interior minister and Air force commander resign! ' as they march to protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 . Thousands of mourners gathered in Gulyazi village at the border with Iraq, southeast Turkey for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq. Turkish television footage showed people, many weeping and lamenting the dead, as they gathered after the air strikes Wednesday that killed a group of smugglers along the border, one of the deadliest episodes in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels who took up arms in 1984.(AP Photo)Reuters - Gunmen carrying silenced weapons attacked a checkpoint manned by government-backed Sunni militiamen and killed all five of them in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala, security officials said on Saturday.



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