Dozens dead in new Iraq violence

[Eugene]

(BBC News)

Last Updated: Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 07:37 GMT 08:37 UK

Dozens dead in new Iraq violence

At least 38 people have been killed in fresh violence in Baghdad, police say.

The bullet-riddled bodies of 14 men were recovered together in the Shaab district
of the Iraqi capital.

Four Shia students were pulled from a vehicle and shot dead late on Tuesday,
and about 20 bodies were found after a number of other attacks.

In nearby Falluja, at least five people were killed when a suicide bomber struck
on Wednesday morning as crowds of men gathered to join the police.

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4967644.stm

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1. I wonder if people are even following this anymore?

....Cycle of killings

Our correspondent says that many of the victims of massacres of this type have been Sunnis, some of them picked up by death squads which the Shia-controlled interior ministry is accused of allowing to operate under its cover.

But he says it is certainly not a one-way process - most of the victims of the Sunni-based insurgency have been Shia.

The four students appear to have been stopped in their car by gunmen who set up a fake checkpoint.

According to the Associated Press, the five killed in the attack in the restive city of Falluja were three applicants for jobs with the police, and two policemen.

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2. I think people know about this, I just think that they have given up

caring because it just doesn't do a damn bit of good. It's a mess created by our 'government' and they won't even acknowledge it. And what is the solution? Apparently it boils down to the sect with the most numbers alive and kicking in a year or so wins. (Just think what it will be like when the Kurds try to secede and take the Kirkuk oil fields with them. Like bush** and the boys will let them have 'em.)