Many Iraqi bodies found dumped

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1C2F6D73-7220-49A7-A1DD-2A333DC4F8A4.htm

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The bodies of 18 Iraqis, shot dead, have been found dumped on roadsides in central Iraq.

Thirteen corpses, including that of a young woman, were discovered near Latifiyah, 40km south of Baghdad, witnesses said.

The bodies displayed bullet holes that gave the impression their killers had shot them at close range, said resident Abd al-Rahman al-Janabi.

Most of the bodies were men aged between 20 and 40, along with a woman who appeared to be in her mid-twenties.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Hmm

Are the Death Squad already in action?

[notadmblnd]

2. had the same thought

nt

[leftchick]

8. I agree

it is very hard to tell just who is the 'enemy' these days... :(

[Liberal Veteran]

3. How many bodies equals a mass grave?

:shrug:

[livinginphotographs]

4. And how many mass graves

were created by Americans as opposed to Saddam? I'd say we're winning that contest...

Every day, we lose more and more of our moral standing over in Iraq. And every day, they (rightfully) will begin to hate us even more.

[TahitiNut]

5. A little Abu Ghraib clean-up/clean-out?

What the hell ... just dump the "evidence"?


Disclaimer: I abhor such suspicions on my part. There's almost nothing I'd put past this Regime at this point. I can sure understand why many Americans wouldn't want to believe such things - it's really difficult to look at the behavior of this cabal of corporatist-fascists and see how extensively they lie and promulgate atrocities. And the "good Germans" of America just slumber on. ("Gee, we didn't know they were cremating Jews 2 kilometers away from here.") :puke:

[mhr]

7. I Put Nothing Past The Fascists Running This Country

In my mind, they and their minions are equal suspects in all unsolved Iraq crimes until "proven" otherwise.

[seriousstan]

10. Just, the US controls Aljazeera's content.

Why would anyone think otherwise? ROVE,ROVE,ROVE!

Sarcasm off

[Robbien]

6. Sierra Times reported

Thirteen corpses were discovered near Latifiyah, a rebel stronghold south of Baghdad which the US-led multinational forces swept less two months ago, witnesses said. It appeared most of the victims at been shot at close range but residents were afraid to alert police for fear of reprisals by insurgents in the stretch of lush farmland south of Baghdad

Four Iraqis working for a foreign company were also discovered near Kut, a city southeast of Baghdad, police said. The US military also retrieved the body of an executed Iraqi from a river north of Baghdad.

No further details were available on the circumstances of the latest deaths, but insurgents have been imposing their rule on several areas across Iraq and carrying out a campaign of intimidation among the population.

An Iraqi member of the International Committee of the Red Cross was killed west of Baghdad Saturday, the humanitarian organisation announced in Geneva. The ICRC did not elaborate on the circumstances that led to his death.

Two mortar rounds hit a police station just outside the heavily fortified Baghdad compound which houses the interim government and the US embassy, wounding two civilians, medical sources said.

The US military announced that one soldier was killed and three wounded in a roadside bombing in Mosul on Thursday. Another US soldier was killed in a separate attack in the city the same day.

[NYC]

12. They pulled a body from the river?

...The US military also retrieved the body of an executed Iraqi from a river north of Baghdad...

Maybe it was one they threw in themselves? Recently, there was a "conclusion" to a case where the soldier was found not guilty of murder because the body had floated away. No body, no murder.

[seriousstan]

9. Residents were afraid to alert police for fear of reprisal by fighters

"Also south of Baghdad, the bullet-riddled corpses of four Iraqis working with a foreign company were discovered near Kut.



The dead were identified as an Iraqi businessman and three of his workers who had been threatened for working with a foreign company, police said.



The bodies were dumped near the town of Al-Suwaira where fighters have set up checkpoints and carried out attacks, drawing attention once more to the high level of power exercised by rebels across central Iraq."

[struggle4progress]

11. kick for "damn! it sounds like el salvador and guatemala in the 1980s!"