The nation's security services initially said a terror suspect killed his own family during a raid, but relatives and neighbors have told a very different story.
By Omar AbdulkaderIraqi officials inspect the destroyed home of Rahim Kazem Al-Ghurairi following a raid by security forces on December 30, 2021 that left him and 19 members of his family, mostly women and children, dead. Inaccurate intelligence, possibly delivered deliberately to settle a family feud, led to the massacre of 20 members of an Iraqi family last month.
According to neighbors, the Iraqi security forces used grossly excessive force during the raid on Rahim Kazem Al-Ghurairi's family home. The incident started when a few civilians knocked on his door on December 30, around 3 p.m., claiming to have an arrest warrant for him as a suspected terrorist and asking him to surrender.
Al-Ghurairi's sister told journalists that the accusations against her brother were false – that he was neither a terrorist nor any other type of criminal, just a man who loved his family. She blamed the security forces' heavy-handed response for killing everyone in the house and accused Al-Ghurairi's brother-in-law, who works for the Iraqi intelligence services, of fabricating the accusations because of a family dispute.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi visits the site of a raid by security forces that left 20 civilians dead, which al-Kadhimi blamed on"inaccurate intelligence."Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi reacted on Monday, blaming"inaccurate intelligence" for the massacre and tasking the National Security Agency to lead an investigation into the raid.
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