The Growing Trend Of Revenge Killings In Iraq

Awad al-Hail Abdullah, whose son Faras joined the insurgency. Faras's brother Yousef was killed, apparently in revenge. Max Becherer for The New York Times

As Iraqi Militants Flee, Families Are Targets of Blood Reckoning -- New York Times

KIRKUK, Iraq — Even his parents admit that Faras Awad was a killer. As an insurgent leader in this northern Iraqi city, he kidnapped women and executed civilians in the years after the American invasion. Then he vanished, to escape the law, his enemies and a $50,000 bounty on his head.

But someone needed to pay. Late last year, Faras’s younger brother Yousef was kidnapped, shot in the head and dumped in an abandoned lot. The police called it a lawless act of revenge — one brother dying for the sins of another.

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My Comment: I wish them the best of luck in breaking this vicious cycle of killing and revenge .... but I have my doubts that it will succeed.