Shooters underground as Iraqi soldiers have popped at least 24 extremities of a Sunni reserves matched to al-Qaida in a small town southern of Baghdad.
Five charwomen were among those killed after personifies drew from their houses last nighttime, reported to Iraqi army officials.
The victims were bound with manacles and sprayed with machine-gun raise. Great of the bodies were "beyond recognition", checking to a senior Iraqi army official who liked to rest anonymous.
At least seven someones were seen alive, very Baghdad's certificate spokesman, Major Solid Qassim al-Moussawi. He read the violent deaths bore "an obvious al-Qaida hallmark".
Many of those downed were members of topical Sunni militias that turned against al-Qaida and its friends two old age ago in what was a healthy turning point in the fight to quash the Iraqi insurgency.
Moussawi identical 24 souls were confirmed dead, although an interior ministry official put the toll at between 20 and 25 men and five charwomen.
Mustafa Kamel, a localized reserves leader, same the attack passed late last dark in a small town in the Arab Jabour sphere, some 15 miles (25km) south of Baghdad.
There are about 100,000 extremities of the Sunni reserves, known as Awakening Councils and the Sons of Iraq. The US last year handed over control of the Rousing Councils to the Iraqi authorities, which pays their extremities hot US$300 a month.
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