Please excuse my lack of commentary on this particular story, I'm so incensed and sickened having just read this, that I'm at a loss for words. Except to say that it looks like
George Fu*king W. As#wipe Bush got the fundamentalist, anti-gay society and government in Iraq that he wants so desperately in the United States.
Freedom is indeed on the march in Iraq... to the doorsteps of Iraqi families to murder their "gay" children.
Iraqi Police Execute "Gay" Child in Baghdad
Ahmed, aged 14, shot dead on doorstep
LONDON, May 4, 2006 - Gay human rights group Outrage! has today accused Iraqi police of executing a 14 year old boy in the al-Dura district of Baghdad in early April.
Ahmed Khalil was accused of corrupting the community and creating a scandal because he had sex with men. "Ahmed was, in fact, a victim of poverty. He sold his body to get money and food to help his impoverished family survive," said Ali Hili, an exiled gay Iraqi who is Middle East Affairs spokesperson for the London-based OutRage!.
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According to a neighbour, who witnessed Ahmed's execution from his bedroom window, four uniformed police officers arrived at Ahmed's house in a four-wheel-drive police pick-up truck.
The neighbour saw the police drag Ahmed out of the house and shoot him at point-blank range, pumping two bullets into his head and several more bullets into the rest of his body.
Mr Hili is also coordinator of the Iraqi LGBT - UK group, consisting of more than 30 Iraqi gay exiles in the UK. They are in contact with an underground network of gay people in Baghdad and other cities.
He was given details of Ahmed's execution by his friends in Baghdad, including "J", a university graduate and professional, who lives in the al-Dura area and who has spoken to eye-witnesses and Ahmed's neighbours.
"According to our contacts in Baghdad, the Iraqi police have been heavily infiltrated by the Shia paramilitary Badr Corps," Mr Hili said.
"They are seeking to impose a fundamentalist morality on the people of Iraq. The murder of Ahmed follows a pattern of Badr executions of suspected gays and lesbians in Iraq. Badr are using their members in the police to enforce the violent homophobia of Sharia law."
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UPDATE: In the comments section, renaissance grrrl has found a link to another, more in-depth story on this incident. You can find it here.