"U.S. soldiers handed over 12 bodies to the general hospital in Tikrit"

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Reuters:

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* BAGHDAD - Police said they found 30 bodies on the streets of Baghdad, victims of sectarian death squads. They said eight bodies were found in the Sunni district of Doura alone.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 20 suspected al Qaeda in Iraq militants in a two-day operation north of Baghdad this week, the U.S. military said.

* BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said eight suspected militants were killed during raids in eastern Baghdad on Monday.

GARMA - At least seven members of one family were killed when gunmen broke into their house in Garma, west of Baghdad, and planted explosives inside and blew it up, police said.

SAMARRA - The mayor of Samarra, a mainly Sunni city 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, was shot dead, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found 26 bodies in Baghdad on Tuesday.

TIKRIT - U.S. soldiers handed over 12 bodies to the general hospital in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad on Tuesday, said Iyada al- Jugheifi, head of the hospital's morgue. It was unclear how the people died.

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[acmavm]

1. How can everything in that country not be red from blood? How

friggin' many people are going to die over there?

[seemslikeadream]

2. Genocide by design?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1275903

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3. Kick! n/t

[cureautismnow]

4. It's the Wild, Wild (Middle) East.

Sad. Tragic. Heart-wrenching. This madness must end or at least our involvement therein.