CNN on-line headline: Pentagon: Cold-blooded Carnage Soaring in Iraq

[DeepModem Mom]

Pentagon: Cold-blooded carnage soaring in Iraq
September 1, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said Friday.

Increasing violence is affecting "all other measures of stability, reconstruction and transition," according to the report, which examined the situation in June, July and August.

But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."

"Sectarian tensions increased over the past quarter manifested in an increasing number of execution-style killings, kidnappings and attacks on civilians," said the report which is required by Congress....

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"The Baghdad coroner's office reported 1,600 bodies arrived in June and more than 1,800 in July, 90 percent of which were assessed to be the result of executions."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/01/iraq.main/index.html

[goclark]

1. How "uncivil" does it have to get for Rummy? nt

[burythehatchet]

2. Ah yes, the Salvadoran option.

[pat_k]

3. How long before we see a repeat of April 29, 1975. . .

. . .in Bagdad?




The Long, Last Day (CBS News April 29, 1975)

[magellan]

4. They're so busy playing semantics

Who the feck cares what it's called? Civil war, sectarian strife....What it comes down to is the mass murder of Iraqis carried out by Iraqis. And for a government that invaded under the banner of "Iraqi Freedom" and has been force-feeding us prideful "we're spreading democracy" pap for 3 years, BushCo's decision to debate the terminology rather than to address the bloodshed is shameful and telling.

BUSH** is responsible for it, no matter what one chooses to call it.

[WhiteTara]

5. Negroponte did his job well. He taught

the death squads new ways to torture and kill.