Car bomb and mortars kill 27 in Baghdad (19 found shot/tortured)

[uppityperson]

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-07-27T154709Z_01_GEO743062_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml

Nineteen bodies with bullet holes and showing signs of torture were found in different areas of Baghdad on Thursday.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have been focusing their efforts on stabilizing Baghdad, racked by car bombs, suicide bombers and kidnappings....(more@link)

Doing a poor job at stabilizing it, aren't they. RIP murdered Iraqis. Can you imagine if this were (big city in USA)?

[Robbien]

1. Attacks in Upscale Part of Baghdad Kill 31

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Mortars, rockets and a car bomb blasted Baghdad's upscale Karradah district Thursday, killing at least 31 people and wounding 153, police said. The explosions occurred at midmorning in the religiously mixed neighborhood controlled by a major Shiite party, as the United States and Iraq prepared to send more troops to fight rising sectarian violence in the capital.

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The explosion occurred about 200 yards from the house of Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, a senior figure in the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the country's biggest Shiite party. One of the mortars exploded about 150 yards from SCIRI's headquarters in Karradah.

Police said at least two rockets were used in the attack, the largest in Karradah in about a year. The mostly Shiite neighborhood also is home to President Jalal Talabani and SCIRI leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5977528,00.html

[Contrary1]

2. Sad, just sad.

[bemildred]

3. Democracy is being born all over the Middle East. nt

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

4. What an unbelievable F*CKED UP mess!!!

Just mind boggling that these neocon asswipes thought their little Iraq plan would have Democracy spreading across the ME...the only things spreading across the ME are death and destruction.