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January 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
More than 200 people have been killed in attacks since American forces
completed their pullout on December 18, according to an AFP tally.
A medical official said at least four women were among the fatalities, but no
further details were immediately available.
Maliki and his family were killed by gunmen in Yarmuk, although there have
been differing accounts of the attack itself.
A medic at Yarmuk hospital said the attackers burst into a real estate agency
and killed three, while an interior ministry official said four people,
including two real estate agents, died when gunmen opened fire on their car.
Friday’s attack came a day after violence in Iraq killed 17 people, and is the
deadliest to hit the country in nearly two weeks, amid a political crisis
pitting the Shiite-led government against the main Sunni-backed bloc that
has stoked sectarian tensions.
The row erupted when authorities charged Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq
al-Hashemi with running a death squad and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a
Shiite, called for his Sunni deputy Saleh al-Mutlak to be sacked after the
latter said the premier was “worse than Saddam Hussein”.
In response, Hashemi and Mutlak’s Iraqiya bloc has largely boycotted the
cabinet and parliament, and Hashemi, who denies the charges, has stayed in
Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, which has so far declined to hand him
over.
The United Nations and the United States have urged calm and called for
dialogue but oft-mooted talks among Iraq’s political leaders have yet to
take place
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