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Terrorism & Security | csmonitor.com:

Iraq's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiyar Amin said he will investigate claims that Iraq's new Prime Minister Iyad Allawi killed six prisoners just days before he took office.
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Australian journalist Paul McGeough, who broke the story, and then left Iraq for Jordan because of safety fears, stood by his report.

In his report Saturday, Mr. McGeough quoted two unnamed witnesses who say they were at the prison southwest of Baghdad when Allawi pulled a pistol and "executed as many as six suspected insurgents ..." At least five of the prisoners shot were Iraqis, the witnesses said.