April 8, 2009 – UPI: Iraq Gays in Iraq face killings, cop crackdowns
— “slayings of as many as 25 gay men and boys in Iraq in recent weeks”
— April 8, 2009 – NY Times: Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
— April 5, 2009 – Iraq: Gay Men Murdered by Extremists in So-Called “Honor Killing”
— See Also:
— September 25, 2008: ‘Sexual cleansing’ rampant in Iraq
— “Revered cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Tatchell notes, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling for the killing of homosexuals in the ‘most severe way possible.'”
— May 17, 2006: Iraqi militants sentence all gays to death

Note:
Thursday April 16, 2009 Rally  in London
— to highlight “the execution and murder of Iraqi LGBT over the last several days and equally those still imprisoned and facing execution/murder as now”
— Urgent petition to save the lives of 128 homosexuals sentenced to death in Iraq

Other Extremist Anti-Gay “Honor Killings”
— July 21, 2008: Man flees Turkey after “honour killing” of his gay activist boyfriend
— July 19, 2008: Was Ahmet Yildiz the victim of Turkey’s first gay honour killing?
— July 18, 2008: A Gay Honor Killing?
— Ahmet Yildiz is my family