Survivors Witness Executions

In this latest installation of Iraqi Diary -- first-hand accounts from Iraqis of life and death in their country -- Rasha shares this story from Baghdad:

My uncle was traveling to Syria a month ago when the car he was in was stopped by Sunni militias near the town of Abu Ghraib. The militia men dragged all the men out of vehicles and left the women inside. They checked the men's identity papers and separated the Shias from the Sunnis. Only my uncle and another man were not put into a group. The man had two IDs, one with a Sunni name and one with a Shia name, which is common. He was put into one of the militias vehicles. My uncle is called Ali Fadhil al Ani, a Shia first name with a Sunni tribal name. the Sunni militia men told him he was a liar, and accused him of being a Shia pretending to be a Sunni. He insisted that he was a Sunni living in the Sunni stronghold of al Ghazaliya near the al Sid'deeq mosque, which is controlled by a Sunni militia. They asked him to prove this by telling them the name of the mosque's Imam, but he said he didn't know because he didn't pray in the mosque. Luckily for him, his wife was in the car and said she knew the name of the Imam. She also named various Sunni militia leaders who knew family and knew her from her childhood in Ghazaliya. My uncle was released and as he left he saw the Shia passengers lying on the ground and being kicked. He started the car and drove away, looking back to see that the militia men were executing the prostate Shias by shooting them in their heads.
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