Grisly discovery made at Iraqi school (24 people tortured and executed)

[Barrett808]

Baghdad, Iraq - Iraqi police Tuesday found the bodies of 24 people who had apparently been tortured and shot before being dumped in two separate locations in Baghdad, police said.

Eleven bullet-riddled corpses, with their hands and legs bound, were found near a school in the Shiite dominated Maalif neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, police 1st Lieutenant Mutaz Salahiddin said.

Police found another the bodies of another 13 people, believed to have been aged between 25 and 35, dumped behind a Shi'a mosque in the Turath neighbourhood in western Baghdad, said police 1st Lieutenant Maitham Abdul-Razaq.

He said the bodies were all handcuffed, showed signs of torture and had been shot in the head.

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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1156849202164B262

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. hey, you can't report that. It conflicts with their script.

besides, Alberto's flew in to supervise their new and improved torture methodology.

[54anickel]

5. Alberto would say any rules againt this are "quaint".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2482559

"It is difficult to decide what is appropriate and what is allowed under law," said Gonzales, who has drawn criticism in the past for describing the Geneva Conventions against prisoner abuse as "quaint".

[Ian David]

2. The media is ignoring the good news in this story...

There's at least one school still standing!

:sarcasm:

[Phredicles]

4. And what about all the people who haven't been tortured and executed?

At least, not yet.

[Supersedeas]

7. Priority News: Jon Benet, Bruce Springsteen break-up, Pluto, Tom Cruise

[MnFats]

10. JonBenet and Springsteen are breaking up? I can't stand it!

i live my life vicariously through the adventures of others.

[KansDem]

8. ...and was it freshly painted? There had been many "good news" stories

...about "freshly painted" schools in Iraq.

:sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

3. will many even know in the USa? (this may be buried in bigger story only)

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. This must be a mistake. Please check the country name for accuracy.

Surely this isn't Iraq.

[arcane1]

9. smells like Negroponte's work n/t

[Julius Civitatus]

20. Hey, torture czar Gonzales was just there in Iraq

Coincidence?

[MikeyJones]

11. What do you expect? It's only going to get worse......

Wait until the actual civil war itself starts when the "coalition of the willing"(ha) pulls out. Shia and Sunni death squads will spend their days exchanging massacres similar to Beirut in the 80s except probably more along the line of say the Rwandan "civil war"/genocide.

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[aquart]

13. Ridding the country of military-age men.

How practical. Who needs a generation of husbands, fathers, breadwinners? Not a nation in civil war.

[hotforteacher]

14. Right, except for the fact that it was not mentioned that

all of them were men. So add to the bodycount mothers, sisters, daughters, and BREADWINNERS.

:evilfrown:

[aquart]

24. You're right.

I was making an assumption, which I shouldn't have. But I remember reading Riverbend saying there wasn't a block that hadn't lost men, that men within a certain age range had begun to disappear. So I assumed they were still rounding up young men.

And I was remembering Bosnia, where Muslim men were separated from their wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and bussed away to their mass grave.

But I should have read more closely.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. "people"

how many men, how many women? how many children?

[hotforteacher]

16. Thank you, Viva.

:yourock:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

18. apparently

so do you.

:hi:

[Barrett808]

17. Also, consider the form of torture

Almost certainly, it was the prevalent drill torture, which is a horrifying new feature on the US imperial landscape.

[bvar22]

19. Hey!!! "Democracy is messy!"

Why do you hate America?

/sarcasm

[yellowcanine]

22. not to mention "untidy". Someone call Housekeeping.

[gully]

23. What "mass graves" in Iraq?

I thought we ended all that stuff. :sarcasm:

Good lord I hate this administration.