Lots more bodies found in Iraq

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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/More_bodies_found_in_Iraq.html?siteSect=143&sid=7085827&cKey=1158889059000

NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Italy, the last major Western European ally of the United States and Britain in Iraq, ended its mission on Thursday, handing the province under its control over to Iraqi troops.

Thirty-eight bodies were found dumped in the streets of Baghdad, a toll that has become almost routine in the capital over the past weeks as death squads roam its streets, dragging victims out of homes and shops, torturing and killing them.

A U.N. report released overnight said Iraq was now deadlier than ever, with 6,599 Iraqis dying violently in the last two months, 700 more than in the previous two.

"Bodies found at the Medico-legal Institute often bear signs of severe torture, including acid-induced injuries and burns caused by chemical substances, missing skin, broken bones, missing eyes, missing teeth and wounds caused by power drills or nails," it said.

A U.N. human rights investigator said in Geneva on Thursday that torture is rampant in Iraqi prisons and police detention centres, and may be worse than under Saddam Hussein's rule.

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1. "BRING EM ON" shouted the DRAFT DODGING CHIMPANZEE

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Bush has opened the gates of hell

and they say he's not the devil?

[katinmn]

3. Bush (Satan) is directly responsible for the slaughter

and Congress is complicit.

[bluerum]

4. This is insane. How can any moderately conscious mind,

think that things have changed for the better in Iraq? How, even with removal of a brutal dictator, can this be seen as progress?

[acmavm]

6. How can any decent human being think that this administration

knows what it's doing and has the best interest of the US and the Iraqi people uppermost in their minds?

It just boggles the mind. I gave up trying to understand people five or six years ago when someone came up with the disgusting idea that this ugly, petty, cowardly liar was pResidential material. And then the people in this country let him steal the election.

[marmar]

5. Quel horreur....

Our national karma is f..ked. :cry: