Police find 60 bodies in Baghdad, bomb kills 10

[brettdale]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL046363.htm


Police find 60 bodies in Baghdad, bomb kills 10

BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Iraqi police found 60 bodies dumped across Baghdad in the 24 hours up to Tuesday morning, the apparent victims of sectarian death squads blamed for escalating violence that threatens to pitch the country into civil war.

A bomb placed under a car outside a bakery in the mostly Sunni Arab southern Baghdad district of Doura exploded at midday, reducing the shop to rubble and killing 10 people, many who had been queuing outside to buy bread, police said.

Iraq has been gripped by Sunni-Shi'ite bloodletting since the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim shrine in February. The United Nations estimates 100 Iraqis die violently every day.

In the most high-profile killing in recent weeks, gunmen in camouflage uniform on Monday shot dead the brother of Iraq's Sunni vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi. He was the third of Hashemi's siblings to be killed since April.

[marmar]

1. What is this "threatens to pitch the country into civil war" nonsense...

We've crossed that bridge, methinks. :think:

[shadowknows69]

2. I don't suppose any of these bodies that are being found

could be the handiwork of our soldiers by any chance could it. I mean I'm sure we don't take the time to bury the "insurgents" we kill.