Gunmen dressed as police kill 9 in Baghdad raid

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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-29T115417Z_01_FRI852951_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&archived=False

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos killed nine people in an attack on an electronics store in Baghdad on Wednesday, the latest in a series of raids targeting lucrative businesses in the capital.

Amid rising sectarian violence, with dozens of mutilated bodies turning up daily at the city morgue, there has also been a spate of attacks and robberies by uniformed raiders on stores, money-changers and other businesses this week.

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The fate of those victims is unknown. The dead in Wednesday's attack in the affluent Mansour district of western Baghdad included three women.

Around 30-40 bodies, many shot in the head and showing signs of torture, are being found on the streets of the capital every day, morgue officials say.

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1. and this IS the good news from Iraq,

I feel sorry for the Iraqi's.

[saigon68]

7. To Be Fair--- US Troops did pass out pencils to school Children

The SHEEP are sleeping in heated waterbeds tonight.

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2. "Around 30-40 bodies, many shot in the head"

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3. False Flag Operation? "The horror. The horror".

The first time I had ever heard of False Flag Ops was in a support group for Vietnam Vets at the local VA hospital. Back in the mid 80s. So many horror stories about war. One in particular stood out told by a guy named Chuck.
US GIs enter a Vietnamese village in the middle of the night dressed like Vietcong. They kill some villagers, torch some buildings, create a terror and havoc and then flee.
The next morning these same GIs along with the rest of their company enter the village and provide medical assistance to the villagers, chocolate bars to the children, smiles all around.
Of course the twisted formula is Yankee = Good Guy, Vietcong = Bad Guy.
I was astounded when I first heard the story. I had come to learn that the US military was capable of the most atrocious behavior first hand. They say that this is a different kind of war. Wrong. Wars are all the same. Good guys? Bad guys? All the flags of the world have some of each.
Oh, about Chuck. He was warm. Sweet. Friendly. Troubled by horrible nightmares from his past. An imperialistic militaristic system took him as a 17 year old and indoctrinated him with the most powerful psychological techniques available into thinking that what he was doing for his commanding officer was the right thing to do.
The Vietnamese found a way to forgive him but as much as he tried he couldn't forgive himself. He ended it all with a self inflicted bullet to his brain.
It took a lot of courage to admit to his false flag op. It was ugly and horrible and he painfully admitted to it because he found that he was duped and it was wrong.
"The horror. The horror".

[leftchick]

6. imagine how many 'Chucks' are coming home from Iraq?

That is a very sad story. :cry:

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4. 'Gunmen lined up 14 employees" How horrible (wounded 6)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=AsIIn_v6F6K74HNX5rEwWSWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
Eight Workers Shot Dead at Iraq Company

By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen lined up 14 employees working at an electronics trading company in Baghdad Wednesday morning and shot them all, killing eight and wounding six, police said.


The motive of the attack at the al-Ibtikar trading company in the upscale Mansour neighborhood was not immediately clear. According to survivors' accounts to police, the assailants first asked for the company's manager, who was not there, before firing on the employees.

The survivors said the assailants, some of whom were wearing police uniforms, identified themselves as intelligence agents from the Iraqi Interior Ministry.

Hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence and by death squads operating inside the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry since the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra set off a wave of revenge attacks. Usually, the victims are killed secretively, their bodies discovered hours or days later.

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5. this attach was just one of many.

....Also Wednesday, gunmen killed three staffers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in a drive-by shooting in west Baghdad, Abdul-Razzaq said. A mortar round slammed to earth just outside al-Sadr's home in the holy city of Najaf earlier in the week. The firebrand, anti-American leader, who holds great sway among poor Shiites in Baghdad, was at home but not hurt in the Sunday attack, according to an aide.

Gunmen also attacked a highway police patrol in west Baghdad Wednesday, killing one policeman and wounding four others, including a civilian, police said. In south Baghdad, a sniper killed a policeman on patrol in the Dora neighborhood, Abdul-Razzaq said.

There were several attacks Wednesday in Diyala province north of Baghdad. Gunmen killed two civilians and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in the town of Khalis, 50 miles north of the capital, police said. A roadside bomb in front of an Iraqi soldier's home outside the provincial capital of Baqouba wounded the soldier's 7-year-old son, and another bomb targeted the house of a tribal sheik in Baqouba but caused no casualties, police said.

In other violence Tuesday, one U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded when their Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad, the military said. South of Baghdad, another U.S. soldier was killed by small-arms fire.

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8. Fate?

Washington Post link

"They shouted God is Greatest! then rounded up the women, the workers," said neighbor Muayad Marouf. "I was watching from the window, and then they shot them dead."

Amid a rise in sectarian killings there has also been a spate of attacks and robberies by uniformed raiders on stores, money-changers and other businesses this week.

more at link....