Bloody Day in Iraq Leaves 150 Dead

[Jcrowley]

Bloody Day in Iraq Leaves 150 Dead


In the last day, the body count in Iraq exploded as at least 150 were killed or found dead, and 16 kidnapped with their fates unknown. Tensions are particularly high due to two mass kidnappings that occurred in Baghdad. Roadside bombs, mortars and simple shootings took many lives, while stray fire or mortars took the lives of several children. 45 other people were reportedly injured in those or similar attacks. Experts have noted that in previous years violence has increased during Ramadan; this year is no exception. The US government today also released the names of two Iowa National Guard soldiers killed on Saturday.

At least 118 were killed in Baghdad alone, including one intelligence officer and Faris Khalil, a colonel in the Interior Ministry. At least thirteen more bodies were found throughout Baghdad on Monday, adding to the fifty that were found overnight Sunday. They were shot to death and bore signs of torture. It is believed that "sectarian death squads" killed them. Mortar attacks reportedly killed 1, injured 3 in northern Baghdad, while another mortar killed 1 and injured 8 in the Ur district. 8 fatal shooting victims were delived to a hospital in the Yarmouk district. Roadside bombs killed 3, injured 8 in the Saadoun district; wounded 3 more in the Yarmouk district and 2 in Eastern Baghdad. Another bomb targeting police killed 2, injured 2, in the Waziriya district, but whether the casualties were police or civilians is unconfirmed. A noontime bomb blast at a market in Al Nasr reportedly killed 4 and injured 13.

http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=9780

[MannyGoldstein]

1. We're Spreadin' Freedom...

from corporeal existence.

What a catastrophe.

[karlrschneider]

2. Sorry, no time for that minutia. We only have time to pound stakes

into the heart of a resigned, disgraced pervert congressman.
:eyes:

[Imagevision]

3. Bush: "If Barney (the dog) and only Laura back me, I'm staying the course"

In plainer terms, if the enire world was against Bush he would continue and stay the course in Iraq, this president has obvious mental problems.

[babylonsister]

4. That's so sad.

:(

[Jcrowley]

5. Puts things in perspective

I know this post will ultimately sink as it pushes up against the tide of the Bread and Circus but this still happens to be, outside of global warming, THE issue confronting us all.

Iraq civilian deaths hit record in Sept - ministry
01 Oct 2006 14:26:07 GMT
By Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The number of Iraqi civilians killed in violence may have jumped to a record high in September, data from the Iraqi government indicated on Sunday.

Partial statistics compiled by the Health Ministry and issued by the Interior Ministry put civilian deaths last month at 1,089, a 42 percent increase from 769 in August and more than the previous record in this series of data -- 1,065 in July.

Though apparently incomplete, the data have previously given early indications of trends later borne out by other estimates -- notably a sharp increase in killings after the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February and a decline in the number of deaths at the start of a major military operation in Baghdad in August.

The United Nations, which adds numbers on hospital deaths from the Health Ministry to the numbers of unidentified bodies in the Baghdad morgue, has said 6,599 Iraqis were killed in July and August, 700 more than in the previous two months.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC145456.htm

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Ahhh..you just have a "misimpression" about Iraq. Ask Dubya.

Like those folks at the NIE.

[Jcrowley]

7. I Get Those

IRAQ RAMADAN ATTACKS
24.9.2006. 10:36:58

As the holy month of Ramadan begins in Iraq, at least 35 people, mainly woman, have been killed in a car bomb attack on a kerosene tanker in the mainly Shia district of Sadr City in the capital, Baghdad.

The BBC reported that most of the victims were women queuing for cooking fuel to use during Ramadan.

At least another 37 people were injured in the blast.

No-one has claimed responsibility. The area has seen a number of violent sectarian attacks between Shia and Sunni muslims.

In a separate incident, the severed heads of nine murdered Iraqi police and soldiers have been found in the city of Tikrit.

It's believed the police and soldiers had been abducted by insurgents.

http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=131466®ion=6

[Jcrowley]

8. 14 Killed, 14 Kidnapped In Iraq

14 Killed, 14 Kidnapped In Iraq
Lawmakers Extend State Of Emergency As Another Bloody Week Begins


BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 2, 2006
 At least 14 people were killed Monday in attacks in Iraq, while authorities found more mutilated bodies in and around Baghdad — likely victims of the sectarian death squads — and 14 people were kidnapped in the capital.

The headless bodies of seven people were turned in to the Kut
morgue, morgue spokesman Hadi al-Itabi said. The bodies were found Sunday in Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad.

In eastern Baghdad, the bodies of two more people were found, police said. They had been shot, their arms and legs bound, and showed signs of torture.

Already in the 24-hour period into Monday morning, a total of 50
bodies, all shot and some with signs of torture, had been found in
the capital, said police 1st Lt. Thair Mahmoud.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/02/iraq/main2054429.shtml

[malaise]

9. Fugging hell n/t

[Jcrowley]

11. That is exactly what it is- Hell

50 bodies of tortured Iraqis found, two U.S. Marines killed
Malaysia Sun
Monday 2nd October, 2006  

Iraqi police say at least 50 bodies showing signs of torture have been found in the Baghdad area.

Police say the mutilated corpses, discovered early Monday, had bullet wounds and were most likely victims of sectarian violence.

On Sunday, police say a group of gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a meat processing factory in western Baghdad. It was not immediately known if some kidnap victims were among the corpses found today.

Iraqi officials say three soldiers from the Iraqi army's quick reaction force were killed early today in an ambush near Kut, 40 kilometers southeast of the capital.

http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/6bc6ea93bb3c65a9/

[leftofthedial]

10. last throes

turning the corner

stay the course

it's all al qaeda

a marine helped a little old iraqi lady across the street today. but you don't hear about that in the liburl media, do you?

[mod mom]

12. :( bu$h's war.

[Jcrowley]

13. Lots

of sponsors.

[maddezmom]

14. locking

DU does not allow linking to antiwar.com