Sunni men in Baghdad targeted by attackers in police uniforms

[maddezmom]

By Tom Lasseter and Yasser Salihee, Knight Ridder Newspapers
1 hour, 46 minutes ago



BAGHDAD, Iraq - Days after Iraq's new Shiite-led government was announced on April 28, the bodies of Sunni Muslim men began turning up at the capital's central morgue after the men had been detained by people wearing Iraqi police uniforms.

Faik Baqr, the director and chief forensic investigator at the central Baghdad morgue, said the corpses first caught his attention because the men appeared to have been killed in methodical fashion. Their hands had been tied or handcuffed behind their backs, their eyes were blindfolded and they appeared to have been tortured. In most cases, the dead men looked as if they'd been whipped with a cord, subjected to electric shocks or beaten with a blunt object and shot to death, often with single bullets to their heads.

Marks on the bodies were similar to the injuries found on prisoners who were rescued from secret Interior Ministry jails by representatives of the Iraqi ministry for human rights, according to family accounts and medical records.

Iraqi and American officials said the murders aren't being investigated systematically, but in dozens of interviews with families and Iraqi officials, and a review of medical records, a Knight Ridder reporter and two special correspondents found more than 30 examples of this type of killing in less than a week. They include 12 cases with specific dates, times, names and witnesses who said they might come forward if asked by law enforcement.

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more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050627/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_usiraq_killings_wa_1

[whistle]

1. What John Negroponte set up as death squads before he left...

[Cocoa]

2. Salvador Option

the SO is well underway.

[Tempest]

3. Exactly

The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/

The Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers.

[Fridays Child]

4. It sure looks that way.

:nuke:

[maddezmom]

5. Reporter shot to death in Iraq (Yasser Salihee) after this story link

Posted on Wed, Jun. 29, 2005


Reporter shot to death in Iraq
By Tom Lasseter
Knight Ridder Newspapers


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for Knight Ridder, was shot to death in Baghdad last Friday.


The shot appears to have been fired by a U.S. military sniper, though there were Iraqi soldiers in the area who also may have been shooting at the time.


Salihee, 30, had the day off and was driving alone near his home in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Amariyah when a single bullet pierced his windshield and then his skull.


He was shot as his car neared a joint patrol of American and Iraqi troops who'd stopped to search a building for snipers. American and Iraqi soldiers are frequently targeted by suicide


more:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12016097.htm

DU link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3981453