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Insurgents kill about 50 Iraqi soldiers in ambush
AP
Monday, October 25, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - 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 yesterday.

The killing of so many Iraqi soldiers - unarmed and in civilian clothes - in such an apparently well-executed operation reinforced American and Iraqi suspicions that the country's security services have been infiltrated by insurgents.

A claim of responsibility posted on an Islamist website attributed the attack to followers of Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The unarmed Iraqi soldiers were killed on their way home after completing a training course at the Kirkush military camp northeast of Baghdad when their buses were stopped Saturday evening by rebels near the Iranian border about
150 kilometres (95 miles) east of Baghdad, Interior Ministry spokesman Adnan Abdul-Rahman said.
Some accounts by police said the rebels were dressed in Iraqi military uniforms.


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