49 Unarmed Iraqi Recruits Massacred
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BAGHDAD, 25 October 2004 - In one of their boldest attacks yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying Iraqi soldiers home on leave and massacred 49 of them â-any of them shot in the head execution-style, officials said yesterday.
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In one of their boldest and most brutal attacks yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying US-trained Iraqi soldiers heading home on leave and massacred about 50 of them -- many of them shot in the head execution-style, officials said Sunday.
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The bodies of 49 freshly trained Iraqi national guard recruits, lined up and executed by insurgents, were discovered on a roadside about 75 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said Sunday.
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Iraq&#39;s US-backed government said on Tuesday that &quot;major neglect&quot; by its American-led allies led to a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said &quot;major neglect&quot; by US-led forces led to the killing of 49 Iraqi army recruits by anti-US fighters this weekend.
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The bodies of 49 Iraqi army recruits are found shot dead near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi partly blamed the American-led military forces on Tuesday for the massacre by insurgents of 49 freshly trained Iraqi soldiers on Saturday, saying the military had shown &quot; major negligence.
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US troops rounded up 49 suspected guerrillas near Saddam Hussein&#39;s hometown on Friday, a day after Iraq&#39;s most violent rebel groups warned
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Iyad Allawi, Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister, said yesterday that the gross negligence of American forces had led to the massacre of 49 Iraqi army recruits by insurgents on Sunday.
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Iraq ordered an investigation on Monday  into whether a security breach triggered a massacre of 49 army  recruits, while two foreign soldiers, an Estonian and an  American, were killed in surging guerrilla raids during  Ramadan.
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BAQUBA, Oct 24: Rebels killed 49 unarmed army recruits in one of the bloodiest attacks on Iraq&#39;s nascent security forces and, in a separate attack on Sunday, killed a US diplomat in a mortar strike near Baghdad airport.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Guerrillas killed 49 unarmed army  recruits in one of the bloodiest attacks on Iraq's fledgling  security forces, and in other attacks Sunday a U.S. diplomat  and a Bulgarian soldier also died.
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TONY EASTLEY: The brutality of the violence in Iraq has reached a new low after 49 young Iraqi men were forced to lie on the roadside and each was shot in the back.
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The bodies of 49 soldiers of Iraq's new army have been found shot dead northeast of Baghdad, police and Iraqi National Guard officers said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Oct 24  - The execution of 43 Iraqi army recruits northeast of Baghdad announced on Sunday is one of the deadliest attacks carried out on the country&#39;s fledgling security forces.
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Around 50 Iraqi soldiers were killed execution-style after insurgents intercepted minibuses carrying them home on leave, officials said today.
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BAQUBA: Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for the killing of nearly 50 unarmed Iraqi army recruits in one of the bloodiest attacks on the country&#39;s fledgling security forces.