BAGHDAD — The bodies of a murdered Sunni Iraqi police lieutenant and his wife were recovered in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood Sep. 25.
The couple had been abducted several days before by Sunni insurgents, said relatives. The bodies were discovered dumped in a pile of trash beneath a pedestrian overpass in the Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Adhamiyah in Baghdad.
Both victims appeared to have been killed by gunshot wounds to the head.
The police lieutenant also had drill holes in his face that indicate he was tortured before being executed, said 1st Lt. Daniel Lake with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, the U.S. unit responsible for security in the Adhamiyah area.
Lake said the lieutenant and his wife – both Sunnis – were most likely targeted by Sunni terrorists associated with Al Qaeda in Iraq or Islamic Government of Iraq because of their involvement with security efforts.
“They killed an upstanding local who was trying to help the Iraqi government defeat terrorists,” Lake said.
Sunni-on-Sunni violence now makes up the majority of violence in northeast Baghdad, following a significant drop in sectarian violence between the Shia and Sunni communities since the Baghdad security plan began, said Lt. Col. David Oclander, executive officer of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
The Police Lt, was providing security to Iraq and had made the difficult decision to do the right thing, become a member of the security forces, instead of doing the easy thing, doing nothing. Still think the Iraqis aren't stepping up and taking chances? Think again.
Ever Iraqi that steps up and joins with the Coalition Forces is placing their life as well as the lives of their family on the line. Thats a hell of a lot more than any member of Congress is doing. If you support the drive to retreat from Iraq and hand it over to the savages that would do this to the young couple because they've taken a stand that enough is enough, then you are accomplices to their murder and torture.
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