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2006-11-04 Iraq

56 dead bodies found in Baghdad, 103 buried in Karbala

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the bodies were shot to death except for one that was beheaded, and that all bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded.

so the beheaded body was blindfolded too? neat trick

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-04 01:38|| 2006-11-04 01:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Lists of dead are meaningless unless you have aditional info. Were the dead Sunnis? If you know the families to notify then you know their religious affiliation. What patterns exist for the dead individuals? Are they from the same neighborhoods? Belong to the same Mosques?

Is there a signature on the torture work, the methods, the markings.? Forensics will provide some of these things for analysis...but not all.
But dead bodies, by themselves are just a list. Useless...unless just being DEAD Moslems is all the plus necessary.

The unclaimed bodies would be the most interesting...from out of town or out of state?
103 buried in Karbala? Locals then? 56 in Baghdad...what neighborhoods? What families? What affiliations and jobs?

This reporting is only half done. The journalism is short.

Posted by Angleton 9 2006-11-04 09:20|| 2006-11-04 09:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how many of the dead had previously spoken Iranian Persian?

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-04 09:26|| 2006-11-04 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't they reuse the handcuffs?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-04 10:04|| 2006-11-04 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 A9 -
I've been asking those same questions for ages. Nobody seems willing or able to answer.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-04 10:04|| 2006-11-04 10:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Karbala burial reveals that the dead are Shiites. Sunnis are more brutal, but Shiites - specifically al-Sadrites - are doing most of the killing. Personally, I blame the corrupting effect of Iran bribery of Iraqi police and military for escalating this violence.

I would predict that once Ayatollah power has been destroyed, then the Sunnis will turn on their own terrorists, while the al-Sadrites will dissolve without Ayatollah support. The Sunni-Card has to be played because it is the Sunni-Shiite rivalry that is raising proliferation fears. No rivalry, no proliferation.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-11-04 11:00|| 2006-11-04 11:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Nice prediction re: Ayatollah power, but that is not scheduled to go away in the near future unless you know something the rest of us don't.

With Iran pumping money and material into this fight more of our guys are going to die with no improvement in the ground situation.

I am getting pessimistic and leaning more to letting them kill one another with abandon. If we are going to remain we need to shut off the Iranian border and make it very clear to the black hats in Tehran that if we find one piece of equipment that came from Iran then their gasoline refinery is toast. Second infraction results in the loss of most of their military installations throughout the country.

Posted by Remoteman 2006-11-04 18:35|| 2006-11-04 18:35|| Front Page Top

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