20 beheaded bodies found in Iraq
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pretty soon, no one will be left to fight...go "freedom"....!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
20 beheaded bodies found in Iraq
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago
Twenty beheaded bodies were discovered Thursday on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad and a car bomb killed another 20 people in one of the capital's busy outdoor bus stations, police said.
The beheaded remains were found in the Sunni Muslim village of Um al-Abeed, near the city of Salman Pak, which lies 14 miles southeast of Baghdad.
The bodies — all men aged 20 to 40 — had their hands and legs bound, and some of the heads were found next to the bodies, two officers said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The victims' identities were unknown, but they were found in an area where Shiite travelers have been kidnapped and killed in the past, en route to the Shiite-dominated provinces of Wasit, Maysan and Basra.
A bomb in a parked car ripped through a crowded transport hub in southwest Baghdad's Baiyaa neighborhood at morning rush hour, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 50, another officer said on the same condition.
Many of the victims had been lining up for buses, awaiting a ride to work. Some 40 minibuses were incinerated, police said.
Baiyaa is a mixed area with a Shiite majority, but it is also the main commercial center of a Sunni-dominated part of Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris River. It is one of a string of neighborhoods just south of the main road to Baghdad International Airport where sectarian tensions have been running high.
AP Television News video showed a square strewn with smoldering car parts and charred bodies with clothes in tatters. Bystanders, some weeping, gingerly loaded human remains into ambulances.
A pickup truck rumbled slowly away from the scene, with two pairs of legs — the dead bodies of victims — dangling out of the back.
One of the police officers who gave information about the ghastly discovery of bodies southeast of Baghdad is based at Interior Ministry headquarters in the capital, and the other is based in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.
Sporadic clashes had been under way in the Salman Pak area for several days, between Interior Ministry commandos and suspected insurgents, the Kut officer said. It was unclear whether the discovery of the bodies was related to the recent fighting.
Salman Pak and its surrounding area has been the focus of new U.S. military operations to oust suspected al-Qaida fighters from the Baghdad's outskirts. American forces launched a drive into Salman Pak and neighboring Arab Jabour two weeks ago.
At the time, ground forces commander Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said U.S. troops were heading into those areas in force for the first time in three years.
In other violence Thursday, three mortar rounds slammed into a popular shopping district in central Baghdad, killing three pedestrians, police said. The attack damaged shops in the Shorja market area and wounded 14 people, an officer said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to media.
Mortars also fell early Thursday in eastern Baghdad's al-Amin neighborhood, killing two civilians and wounding four others, police said.
It was unclear whether the mortars were aimed at the Shorja shopping area, or whether they fell short of an intended target. In recent months, tall security barriers have been built around popular marketplaces in Baghdad, preventing car bombers from entering. However, mortars can be lobbed over such blast walls.
Later Thursday, at least one mortar or rocket targeted the U.S.-guarded Green Zone, sending a huge blast echoing across central Baghdad. There was no immediate word on any casualties.
A car bomb exploded at a fuel station Thursday afternoon in western Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood, killing one person and wounding three others, police said. The victims had been lining up to buy fuel, they said.
In Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, local police said two suspected militants were killed early Thursday when the bomb they were planting near a house of a U.S. translator detonated prematurely.
Also Thursday, the British military said three British soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in southern Iraq.
The bomb exploded near the soldiers' vehicle late Wednesday southeast of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, the military said in a statement. Another soldier was wounded in the blast and remains in stable condition at a military hospital, it said.
The death raised to at least 154 the number of British troops killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.
Britain has withdrawn hundreds of troops from Iraq, leaving a force of around 5,500 based mainly on the fringes of Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad. The U.S. currently has about 155,000 troops in Iraq.
On Wednesday, outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his country would withdraw even more troops within weeks, but he refused to set a more specific timetable.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
20 beheaded bodies found in Iraq
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago
Twenty beheaded bodies were discovered Thursday on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad and a car bomb killed another 20 people in one of the capital's busy outdoor bus stations, police said.
The beheaded remains were found in the Sunni Muslim village of Um al-Abeed, near the city of Salman Pak, which lies 14 miles southeast of Baghdad.
The bodies — all men aged 20 to 40 — had their hands and legs bound, and some of the heads were found next to the bodies, two officers said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
The victims' identities were unknown, but they were found in an area where Shiite travelers have been kidnapped and killed in the past, en route to the Shiite-dominated provinces of Wasit, Maysan and Basra.
A bomb in a parked car ripped through a crowded transport hub in southwest Baghdad's Baiyaa neighborhood at morning rush hour, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 50, another officer said on the same condition.
Many of the victims had been lining up for buses, awaiting a ride to work. Some 40 minibuses were incinerated, police said.
Baiyaa is a mixed area with a Shiite majority, but it is also the main commercial center of a Sunni-dominated part of Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris River. It is one of a string of neighborhoods just south of the main road to Baghdad International Airport where sectarian tensions have been running high.
AP Television News video showed a square strewn with smoldering car parts and charred bodies with clothes in tatters. Bystanders, some weeping, gingerly loaded human remains into ambulances.
A pickup truck rumbled slowly away from the scene, with two pairs of legs — the dead bodies of victims — dangling out of the back.
One of the police officers who gave information about the ghastly discovery of bodies southeast of Baghdad is based at Interior Ministry headquarters in the capital, and the other is based in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.
Sporadic clashes had been under way in the Salman Pak area for several days, between Interior Ministry commandos and suspected insurgents, the Kut officer said. It was unclear whether the discovery of the bodies was related to the recent fighting.
Salman Pak and its surrounding area has been the focus of new U.S. military operations to oust suspected al-Qaida fighters from the Baghdad's outskirts. American forces launched a drive into Salman Pak and neighboring Arab Jabour two weeks ago.
At the time, ground forces commander Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said U.S. troops were heading into those areas in force for the first time in three years.
In other violence Thursday, three mortar rounds slammed into a popular shopping district in central Baghdad, killing three pedestrians, police said. The attack damaged shops in the Shorja market area and wounded 14 people, an officer said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to media.
Mortars also fell early Thursday in eastern Baghdad's al-Amin neighborhood, killing two civilians and wounding four others, police said.
It was unclear whether the mortars were aimed at the Shorja shopping area, or whether they fell short of an intended target. In recent months, tall security barriers have been built around popular marketplaces in Baghdad, preventing car bombers from entering. However, mortars can be lobbed over such blast walls.
Later Thursday, at least one mortar or rocket targeted the U.S.-guarded Green Zone, sending a huge blast echoing across central Baghdad. There was no immediate word on any casualties.
A car bomb exploded at a fuel station Thursday afternoon in western Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood, killing one person and wounding three others, police said. The victims had been lining up to buy fuel, they said.
In Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, local police said two suspected militants were killed early Thursday when the bomb they were planting near a house of a U.S. translator detonated prematurely.
Also Thursday, the British military said three British soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb in southern Iraq.
The bomb exploded near the soldiers' vehicle late Wednesday southeast of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, the military said in a statement. Another soldier was wounded in the blast and remains in stable condition at a military hospital, it said.
The death raised to at least 154 the number of British troops killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.
Britain has withdrawn hundreds of troops from Iraq, leaving a force of around 5,500 based mainly on the fringes of Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad. The U.S. currently has about 155,000 troops in Iraq.
On Wednesday, outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his country would withdraw even more troops within weeks, but he refused to set a more specific timetable.
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I guess some animals cant be giving freedom.
perhaps bushy and the war machine sound have thought about this, yes...?
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
yes, they absolutely should have. HUGE mistake assuming people can live together in freedom without killing one another.
how many happened before the occupation...?
I don't know. Do you?
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
several. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.graves/
nope, but then again, I wasn't the one implying that this sort of behavior will continue with the US out of Irak...
I'm sure that thousands upon thousands of people disappeared in the middle of the night never to be seen or heard from again under Saddam. Sunnis and Shi'ites have been going at it for over 1,300 years, long before the US came a knocking, and they will still be going at it long after we are gone. Our invasion and occupations didn't create the violence it only leveled the playing field for the Shi'ites.
so, in other words, there is not a darn thing we can do about this and it will go on forever...
and make their way to work?
Screw that noise of waiting in-line for the bus.
Or workin @ your lil corner of the open-air market thingy.
Cars and shit blowin the fuck-up.
This is insane and ppl there been living this life style for
so long it is extreme-common-knowledge.
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
Right - and I wasn't implying that it happened before.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Are you one of the people who believe that Iraqis had anything to do with 9/11? Or do you simply believe that all Arabs are members of Al Queda?
You've been saying this for four years. It would be a great stretch to imagine tragedy to this magnitude had we walked out after Shock and Awe - or after pulling Saddam from a hole.
you still pray for more of the same. The same being - in case you haven't noticed, the worst human tragedy ever.
I wonder if they were trying to make their way to the safe haven of Turkey?
Why, according to Tony Blair, there's at least 400,000 in mass graves. LMFAO. Can you say 45-minute threat ??
But hey, that new billion-dollar American embassy in Baghdad will be something, huh ??? Go team. Fucking pathetic......
so you find it fucking pathetic that Iraqis continue to kill each and have zero regard for human life? or that the US is building an embassy ?
sounds good, my friend...I misinterpreted your comment...
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
I know...I guess my rational for post was to keep this war and it's issue "fresh"... it just seems that some are forgetting about this conflict...and the fact there is absolutely no end in sight...
Right... Kerry (or anyone else) would have put an end to sectarian violence?
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Well, I'm not sure what I find more asinine - your snarky, not-so-clever inferences, or the fact that the American embassy in iraq has roughly a thousand people working in it, and only ten of them (yes, ten !!) speaking Arabic (CNN.) No wonder why U.S. intelligence sucks.
Dude, lets cut to the chase. Iraq is a disaster, due in no small part to the invasion. To divorce yourself from America's part in it, or from the self-serving interests of the U.S. gov't, is lunacy. Repeatedly the U.S. gov't says it has no real interest in iraq, other than getting rid of Saddam (or choose one of the other 2 dozen supposedly innocuous reasons) - and yet, it spends a billion dollars on an embassy and talks of setting up several semi-permanent bases in that country. The U.S. has more moves than a $10 hooker - what it says, and what it does, are two totally different things.
And speaking of human rights, respect for human life, or the rule of law, I think the U.S. should shut the fuck up while its relatively ahead.
I didn't mean to sound critical. I know, its crazy whats going on over there. there's such a drumbeat of death and despair from there, I'm not sure what to think any more.
I'll tell you this, every time I see another american soldier dying in Iraq, or another civilian, I can't help but get angry over how this all started with this current admin.... People are dying because of a pack of lies.
If we leave the fighting can end. Like all fighting, it will end with a winner. The United States remains to ensure there is no winner. The US is doing nothing for Iraq other than ensuring this tragedy will continue.
agreed .......
Iraq was a disaster before we got there.
I agree.
seldom right and wrong again. the US has said many times it has interest in Iraq. Bush recently made some comment about how he would like it to be the south korea of the middle east. (or something like that)
right right. there is a mass grave outside my moms house, 30 miles west of chicago. thats not public knowledge, so lets keep that between us.