Iraqi soldiers abducted, 44 bodies found across Iraq

[maddezmom]

Source: Monsters and Critics

Baghdad - An official police source said that an armed group abducted five Iraqi soldiers near Kirkuk city Friday, as 44 unidentified bodies were found around the country, sources said.

Some security force personnel belonging to oil facilities in the area were ambushed by armed men on the main road to the south-west of Kirkuk, which is 290 kilometres north of Baghdad, independent Voices of Iraq news agency reported.

The forces were seized and taken to an unknown place, the source said.

No further details were immediately available.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi security source said that 29 unidentified bodies had been found in the 24 hours to Friday in different parts of the Iraqi capital


Read more: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1312105.php/Five_Iraqi_soldiers_abducted_44_bodies_found_across_Iraq__1st_Lead_

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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 1


* KIRKUK - A suicide truck bomber in Uweidla village near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, killed five people and wounded 25, police said.

* BAQUBA - Six decomposing bodies were found dumped together in the Tahreer district of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MAHMUDIYA - Two civilians were killed and four wounded when mortar rounds landed on a residential area of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

* KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk wounded five policemen, police said.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01601007.htm

[maddezmom]

1. Ten people killed in mortar attack in Baghdad

Ten people killed in mortar attack in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuters) - Ten people were killed and 30 wounded in a mortar attack on a Shi'ite district in southwestern Baghdad after nightfall on Friday, police said.


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR166331.htm

[maddezmom]

2. AFP: 12 dead in Baghdad mortar strike, 40 wounded

12 dead in Baghdad mortar strike

June 01 2007 at 07:36PM

Baghdad - Mortar rounds crashed down on a market place in a mixed Sunni-Shi'a neighbourhood of southwest Baghdad on Friday killing 12 people and wounding 40, a medical source said.

First one round struck the Umm al-Maarif neighbourhood, attracting a large crowd of worried onlookers, then three more slammed into them, killing a dozen people, including children, the doctor at the capital's Yarmuk hospital said

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20070601193312843C976202

[libodem]

3. We are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here

MY ASS. What a God-Awful nightmare of carnage. And the secret places where Iraqis are kidnapped and tortured. That story of the young boy with the captives who had the 'thinest little arms the liberator had ever seen', the hand cuffs wouldn't fit his wrists. How nice to be saved and put into handcuffs. God, finding numerous dead bodies scattered around the city. It's heinous. And because it's commonplace now, no one seems to get very up about it. Business as usual. At least it's not our city. What if it was? Would anyone get up about that? Any one care if it were Boston, St. Paul, Tampa? It would be a flag half massed occasion. Would it not? I thought that once we admitted that Iraq is a Civil War we would get the hell out. Now our troops are targets caught in the cross fire. And the slaughter of civilians in their own country is appalling. But it's OK because it is not our country or our white middle class Americans. It cheapens the value of all life. How can any one care about a 5mm fetus being aborted compared to this mass destruction of human life because of our occupation? What made Terry Shinlder's abandoned shell of a body a national debate. We are contributing to wanton destruction of innocent life by our very occupation. How much worse could it be if we left and just got our soldiers out of the line of fire. Would incidents like what the OP describes then be our fault? Would we be more or less to blame? Is it not our fault when 44 bodies are scattered through the city because being cannon fodder absolves us of responsibility? I don't get it someone explain it to me.