Wife of Imam, Infants Killed Outside Baghdad

(Baghdad) Here's a Deutsche Presse-Agentur report of three seemingly senseless murders.

From M&C:

The wife of an Imam of a Sunni mosque was killed with her two infants was killed [sic] when gunmen broke into her house and opened fire in Muqdadiya, 100 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, hospital sources said Tuesday.

The sources said the attackers broke into the house of the Imam of Rasoul Allah Mosque in the city, Qasim Daham al-Hamadani, and killed the woman and her two small children, aged two and five, late Monday.

Witnesses said Hamadani was away when the massacre took place.

These killings just don't make a lot of sense to me. There seems to be absolutely no rational benefit to be derived from the murders. Even if fellow Sunnis were mad at Hamadani or al-Qaeda was after Hamadani, why kill his wife and kids? Hopefully, there'll be a followup report explaining the motive.