The New Yorker magazine has run a major profile of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi in which it adds new proof to a report from last year that Allawi personally shot dead six Iraqi prisoners a week before he took office. The reporter Jon Lee Anderson said he spoke with a well-known former government minister in Jordan who confirmed the killings took place. Anderson also sat in on an interview with a man who claimed to have witnessed the executions. The story was first reported by The Sydney Morning Herald but received little attention in this country. The witness to the killing reported that Allawi said before the executions “This is how we must deal with the terrorists.”