Baghdad death squads end truce to seek revenge

[wellst0nev0ter]

Source: The Independent (UK)

Death squads are returning to the streets of Baghdad despite the security plan for the capital launched with great fanfare by the US two months ago.

As Iraqis bury the 230 people killed or found dead on Wednesday, ominous signs are appearing that the Shia militias have resumed their tit-for-tat killings. There is a sharp increase in the number of dead bodies found bearing signs of torture, with 67 corpses discovered dumped in Baghdad in the first three days of the week.

People in Baghdad, both Shia and Sunni, do not dare move bodies left lying in the rubbish outside their doors though they sometimes cover them with a blanket. One corpse was left lying for days in the centre of a main commercial street in the Sunni bastion of al-Adhamiyah in east Baghdad. He was believed to be a victim of al-Qa'ida in Iraq, which has been killing Sunni who belong to other guerrilla groups or are associated with the government. Local people say that US and Iraqi forces stationed in a newly renovated police station in al-Adhamiyah as part of the security plan seem unaware of what is happening around them.

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The truce by the Mehdi Army militia, though never total, may now be ending because it was met with an escalation in violence by the Sunni insurgents. In a gruesome video posted on the internet a group linked to al-Qa'ida showed a masked gunman shooting 20 kidnap victims, all police or soldiers, in the back of the head. The group had demanded the freeing of all female prisoners by the government.

Read more: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2465943.ece

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Ok, you have failed. Now what, chimpy? McCave? Warbots?

[jmc247]

1. They haven't been watching the death count all to closely

I hate to break it to the The Independent but, they are wrong. The death squads never stopped killing I have been reading the reports each day and finding 30 or 40 bodies in Baghdad wasn't out of the ordinary.

"There is a sharp increase in the number of dead bodies found bearing signs of torture, with 67 corpses discovered dumped in Baghdad in the first three days of the week."

[bemildred]

4. All the stuff about al Sadr's "army" seems to be in the future speculative tense, too.

I think they want him to help now, but don't want to have to ask.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Mission Accomplished" - Commander AWOL & republicon war profiteers

[saigon68]

3. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH

Nice Photo--- LOL

[Javaman]

5. There was a truce??? could have fooled me. nt

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

6. I believe one day people will view this administration as an utter failure

I'm just afraid by then it will be too late.