'Beheaded bodies' found in Iraq

[cal04]

Iraqi security forces have found 30 bodies, all of them beheaded, near the town of Baquba, reports say.
Security officials said they found the bodies near the road by the village of Mulla Eed, to the south-west of Baquba.

The area has been plagued by sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims since the bombing of a Shia shrine in the city of Samarra in February. Baquba, a mixed town home to Shia and Sunni Muslims, has itself been the focus of continuing violence. Iraqi security officials confirmed that they had discovered the bodies of 30 people, thought to be men, near Mulla Eed,

Security forces were heading to the scene to collect the bodies and begin investigations, officials said.
Earlier on Sunday police in Baghdad said they had found at least 10 bodies, some of which had been handcuffed and shot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4847638.stm

Iraqi Troops Investigate Report of Bodies
The Iraqi army said Sunday it has dispatched troops to investigate a report that 30 beheaded corpses were found in a village north of Baghdad. Brig. Saman Talabani, commander of the Iraqi Army 2nd Battalion, said the bodies were reported by residents in Mullah Eid, a village near the town of Buhriz, a former Saddam Hussein stronghold about 35 miles north of Baghdad.

http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060326/API/603260594

[C_U_L8R]

1. Oh yeah .. there's lots of good news to report in Iraq

Send those heads to the Bush-bots.

(angry sarcasm)

[janx]

2. But...Condi was just on Meet the Press,

telling us how good things will be and how the insurgents are composed of "a few"!

[maddezmom]

3. Baqouba in the Diyala province where the police chief was arrested?

for death squads

hmmm, bad news all around today...again.

[maddezmom]

4. here's the link

Iraqi police major held for death squad role
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2188876&mesg_id=2188876

[acmavm]

5. Now see, to someone as ignorant as I am, the constant beheadings

and bullets to the head would suggest that this country was fighting a civil war. You know, since it's one religious sect who's bodies are being found one day, and the other religious sect's members whose bodies are being found the next.

Ah well, what do I know?

[maddezmom]

6. nah, look at the good things happening in Iraq

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x756383#756852

:crazy:

[JPace]

7. If there were thirty headless bodies found in my city

every citizen would be frozen with fear. I cannot imagine how
awful it must be for Iraqi citizens to live under our failed
occupation of their country. They must wish we had never come!

[Bozita]

8. It's hard work winning the "hearts and minds" of headless Iraqis

Good thing there's no civil war going on.

[sabra]

9. k & r

this is horrible :-(

[SoFlaJet]

10. STOP FOCUSING ON ONLY THE BAD STUFF

will ya? Sheesh we have a country to brainwash..uh um I mean run...

[against all enemies]

12. Yeah!! They probably had arms and legs - That's good news.

[Eugene]

11. AP: Iraqi Troops Abandon Probe of Corpses

Iraqi Troops Abandon Probe of Corpses


Sunday March 26, 2006 7:46 PM

By STEVEN R. HURST

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The Iraqi army said Sunday it had dispatched troops
to investigate a report of 30 beheaded corpses in a village north of Baghdad,
but the soldiers turned back before reaching the site, apparently fearing
an insurgent ambush.

The soldiers did not get close enough to confirm the report, a military officer said,
speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose
the information.

<snip>

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5712449,00.html

[maddezmom]

15. absolute chaos

:eyes:

[reprobate]

17. Do these Iraqi troops have any relatives used to be ARVN?

The resemblance is chilling. If we are waiting to leave until they can take over, looks like we're there forever.

[progressoid]

13. Freedom is on the march!!!

[Bozita]

14. Freedom "turned back before reaching the site, apparently fearing

... an insurgent ambush."

from the Guardian link

[Harper_is_Bush]

16. Why does the BBC want American to fail? Do they hate America?

Show us a school being opened please!!!!

Oh, I forgot. They can't show them or they'll be bombed.

[K8-EEE]

18. But There Are Millions Who Still Have Their Heads Attached

...to their bodies, why does the MSM only focus on the ones who don't? :eyes:

Only Bush could make Saddam seem like "the good old days."

[Vexatious Ape]

19. Freedoms on the march

We're just hitting a rode-bump right now.

[cal04]

20. 20 reportedly dead as U.S., Iraqis battle militia

Where is all this good news that they keep blaming the media for NOT reporting

20 reportedly dead as U.S., Iraqis battle militia
Interior Ministry officials arrested after hostages found in secret prison
(snip)
Details were sketchy but the two operations looked like U.S. strikes against sectarian Shiite militias of the kind the U.S. ambassador said on Saturday must be eliminated if Iraq is to form a unity government and halt a slide toward civil war.

The U.S. military made no immediate official comment and a senior Interior Ministry official denied the arrests of its personnel at a facility in central Baghdad where government and political sources said U.S. troops freed 17 foreign prisoners. But a U.S. source confirmed that American and Iraqi forces had detained 41 Interior Ministry personnel guarding a secret bunker complex. Most foreigners in detention are accused of being Sunni al-Qaida fighters who come to Iraq to fight Americans and Shiites.

(snip)
A senior aide to Sadr, in comments capable of inflaming passions among the radical cleric’s supporters, accused U.S. troops of shooting dead more than 20 unarmed worshippers at the Mustapha mosque after tying them up. The mosque’s faithful follow Sadr but the aide denied they were Mehdi Army gunmen. “The American forces went into Mustapha mosque at prayers and killed more than 20 worshippers,” Hazin al-Araji said. “They tied them up and shot them.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11923817/

[Kenergy]

21. And the WH response...

No one could have anticipated there would be violence when we occupied Iraq

<sarcasm off>

[Bozita]

22. I just looked over at CNN's website -- no story

I couldn't find any.