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Iraqi Prime Minister in extra-judicial killings?

The Pakistan Daily Times has noticed that the US media hasn’t picked up on the (alleged) shooting of 6 prisoners by the (now) Iraqi Prime Minister shortly before the ‘handover’. Now it has been picked up – by Democracy Now. I look forward to seeing more widespread coverage!
According to the Australian journalist who heard about the matter from two independent sources:

There was a surprise visit at about 10:30am to the police centre. The PM talked to policemen and then toured the complex. They came to a courtyard where six, sorry seven prisoners were lined up against a wall. They were blindfolded, they were described to me as an Iraqi colloquialism for the fundamentalist foreign fighters who came to Baghdad.
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The interior minister expressed the wish that he would like to kill all these men on the spot. The PM is said to have responded that they deserved worse than death. At that point, he is said to have pulled a gun and proceeded to aim at and shoot all seven. Six of them died, the seventh, according to one witness, was wounded in the chest.

I suppose drawing attention to this would in turn draw attention to the mechanics of the appointment of the interim government….