Gunmen underground as Iraqi soldiers make killed at least 24 members of a Sunni reserves opposed to al-Qaida in a village southwest of Baghdad.
Five women were among those killed after lives drawn from their homes last nighttime, notifiable to Iraqi regular army officials.
The victims were bound with manacles and sprayed with machine-gun attack. Some of the torsos were "beyond recognition", notifiable to a senior Iraqi regular army official who cared to stay anonymous.
At least seven someones were found alive, read Baghdad's security spokesman, Major Popular Qassim al-Moussawi. He said the killings bore "an obvious al-Qaida hallmark".
Many of those voted down were extremities of topical Sunni militias that released against al-Qaida and its allies two old age ago in what was a large turning point in the cause to quash the Iraqi insurgency.
Moussawi same 24 people were confirmed dead, although an interior ministry official put the toll at between 20 and 25 men and five charwomen.
Mustafa Kamel, a localized militia leader, identical the attack happened late last night in a village in the Arab Jabour country, nearly 15 miles (25km) southern of Baghdad.
There are hot 100,000 members of the Sunni reserves, known as Awakening Councils and the Sons of Iraq. The US last year handed over control of the Awaking Councils to the Iraqi governing, which pays their members about US$300 a month.
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