Corpses, bombs turn up around Iraq

[leftchick]

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=2956724

BAGHDAD, Iraq Officials have been finding bodies around Iraq as militants continue attacks on American and national forces.

Police found the bodies of eight Iraqis in shallow graves in a desert-area north of Baghdad. Officials say the men who had worked at a U-S military base had been bound, gagged and shot in the back of the head. Each had a note attached that said, "This is the punishment of the traitors."

Officials say they also found the bodies of two policemen on a highway south of Baghdad. Each had been shot in the head.

U-S forces clashed with militants in Ramadi and Samarra.

In Mosul, rebels attacked U-S convoys with bombs. U-S officials haven't reported any casualties in those attacks.



This caption says 4 US casualties. Think they are hiding figures from us??

A young man at left, chants in support of insurgents, saying 'Long life, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)' at the scene of a car bombing which struck a convoy of Stryker combat vehicles from the U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, injuring four soldiers, in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005. The vehicle pictured, was not part of the military convoy but was struck by the blast from the suicide-bomber's vehicle. (AP Photo)

[Halliburton]

1. Corpses?

This can't be! Must have been the fireworks set off by the Iraqi's celebrating their freedom at long last!!! Accidents happen!

[jayfish]

6. No, No, No...

it was Saddam. Still filling mass graves from his prison cell.

Jay

[DistressedAmerican]

2. Thank God We Had That Election And Cleared All This Mess Up!

They can't say the violence is getting worse in the leadup to the election. What now, swearing in of elected officials, drafting of the constitution or what?

[Cocoa]

3. Shiite holidays

that's the current excuse. Things will get better after Ashura.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. "Let freedom reign!" the world is safer without Saddam in power

he was a gathering threat ya see, in other words he was a madman ya see, it takes one to know one ya see.

[whistle]

5. Iraqi death squad tactics reminiscent of Guatemala, Nicaragua

...and other Latin countries when the Reagan administration was in power and Negroponte was overseeing policy in those countries. The same Negroponte is now in Iraq.

[Cocoa]

7. we're involved in some of this, for sure

we've taken one or more sides in this civil war already, we'll learn the details years from now.