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| Iraq |
| 15 garrotted men found in truck |
| 2006-03-14 |
THE bodies of 15 garrotted men have been found in the back of a pickup truck in Baghdad, bringing the total number of corpses discovered in the Iraqi capital to at least 49 over the past 24 hours. The 15 men, believed to be aged between 25 and 40, were found in the Al-Khadra district of west Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. Their identities were not immediately known. On Monday, 13 corpses were found in Baghdad's Shiite poor district of Sadr City, where a series of bombings killed 46 and wounded 200 a day earlier. Three men, shot through the head, were found tied to electricity pylons. Four more, also shot to death, bore signs saying "traitor". Twenty-one other bodies of men who had been shot to death, including some with blindfolds and with their hands bound, were found in other parts of the capital, including eight in the northern district of Shola, the official said. At least three of the 21 had been tortured, he added. Many killings appear to be sectarian in nature, but authorities, fearful of fueling mounting anger between majority Shiites and historically-dominant Sunnis, have refused to identify many of the victims. A wave of sectarian violence swept the country following the bombing on February 22 of a Shiite shrine in Samarra. Officials admit that over 450 civilians were killed in the fortnight that followed the bombing, while 81 Sunni mosques were attacked. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #10 hey just fooling ya! :) |
| Posted by: Carmine 2006-03-14 20:38 |
| #9 "Hey don't worry, its none of your bizness, just a little misunderstanding between families. Capiche" I do worry because that was one experiment that I was hoping it would succeed. Only a democratic ME would allow life, as we know it here, to continue. |
| Posted by: TMH 2006-03-14 20:24 |
| #8 TMH Is Iraq heading toward civil war? Hey don't worry, its none of your bizness, just a little misunderstanding between families. Capiche |
| Posted by: Carmine 2006-03-14 20:18 |
| #7 I think the mosque attacks have been much lower, think the figure of actual attacks is more like 10 nation wide where real damage has been done. Which leads me to doubt any of the numbers in the article. Sorry, don't remember the source but then again none of us here are,,, over there. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-03-14 19:29 |
| #6 It's too bad you can't get more specifics. It's like hearing there are ten runs in the game, but you don't know which team scored 'em. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2006-03-14 18:22 |
| #5 Rantburgers, Is Iraq heading toward civil war? I do not what to make of it..... |
| Posted by: TMH 2006-03-14 15:50 |
| #4 Remainds me (on a larger scale) of the first intifada. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-03-14 10:14 |
| #3 One would think that people who refuse to eat pork would be so insensitive to rotting flesh. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-03-14 09:48 |
| #2 "bring out your dead!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-14 09:45 |
| #1 While some of this may be sectarian, I suspect that acts of vigilantism against both terrorists and known gangsters are starting to happen in earnest. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-14 08:35 |