Bomb Hits Baghdad After Headless Bodies Found

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with all this democracy going on in the ME, we forget we are in a war.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050309/ts_nm/iraq_dc

Bomb Hits Baghdad After Headless Bodies Found

1 hour, 35 minutes ago


By Elizabeth Piper

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a garbage truck packed with explosives killed two policemen near a Baghdad hotel Wednesday and police found 41 corpses, shot or decapitated, in the heartland of Iraq (news - web sites)'s insurgency.



Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it carried out the Baghdad attack that wounded at least 20 others -- part of its relentless campaign to bring down the government and drive out U.S. troops.

The killings of the 41, some found in Qaim near the Syrian border and other south of Baghdad in what has become known as the "triangle of death," bore the marks of the insurgency -- some were shot in the back of the head, others beheaded........



Their ranks have been boosted by frustration at the U.S. occupation, a growing number of shootings of Iraqi civilians and by abuse of prisoners in U.S.-manned jails.

[GiovanniC]

1. It Sounds Like the Mid East Is Neck-Deep in Democracy Right Now

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2. Whenever I try to put this into perspective, all I have to do is...

...think of the French Resistance:

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Natzweiler/History/FrenchResistance.html

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By the time that the Allies were ready to invade Europe in June 1944, there were as many as 9 major resistance networks which were fighting as guerrillas against the German occupation of France. There were an estimated 56,000 French resistance fighters who were captured and sent to concentration camps; half of them never returned.

The French resistance fighters blew up bridges, derailed trains, directed the British in the bombing of German troop trains, kidnapped and killed German army officers, and ambushed German troops. They took no prisoners, but rather killed any German soldiers who surrendered to them, sometimes mutilating their bodies for good measure. The Nazis referred to them as "terrorists."

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At first, the French resistance was not organized; it consisted of individual acts of sabotage. Ordinary French citizens cut telephone lines so that communications were interrupted, resulting in German soldiers being killed because they had not received warning of bombing raids by the British Royal Air Force. The Germans fought back by announcing that hostages would be shot if more acts of resistance were carried out.

Slowly, resistance organizations began to form. Telephone workers united in a secret organization to sabotage telephone lines and intercept military messages which they would give to British spies operating in France. Postal workers organized in order to intercept important military communications. The French railroad workers formed a resistance group called the Fer Réseau or Iron Network. They diverted freight shipments to the wrong location; they caused derailments by not operating the switches properly; they destroyed stretches of railraod tracks and blew up railroad bridges.
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3. Security Forces Find 41 Corpses in Iraq!!!!! Is this on TV????

I mean my God!!! Iraq is the biggest fucking mess and the TVs are acting like it is a functioning democracy. :argh:


http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=564632

Elsewhere, guerrillas struck a police patrol with a roadside bomb in the southern city of Basra, killing one policeman and wounding three more, Lt. Col. Karim Al-Zaydi said.

Authorities found 26 of the corpses late Tuesday in a field near Rumana, a village about 12 miles east of the western city of Qaim, near the Syrian border, police Capt. Muzahim al-Karbouli and other officials said.

Each of the bodies had been riddled with bullets apparently several days earlier. They were found wearing civilian clothes and one of the dead was a woman, al-Karbouli said.

South of Baghdad in Latifiya, Iraqi troops on Tuesday made another gruesome discovery, finding 15 headless bodies in a building inside an abandoned former army base, Defense Ministry Capt. Sabah Yassin said.

The bodies included 10 men, three women and two children. Their identities, like the others found in western Iraq, were not known.

Yassin said some of the dead men in Latifiya were thought to have been part of a group of Iraqi soldiers who were kidnapped by insurgents in the area two weeks ago, Yassin said.

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4. This is all sooooo VietNam, you just can't know unless you were there.

And brought to you by the same people too.

[leftchick]

6. Check out Ramadi! Another US Success story.....

Masked and armed insurgents take positions in the city of Ramadi, west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, March 9, 2005. Insurgents took to the streets of the city a day after a video showed U.S. Army soldiers filming themselves kicking a gravely wounded prisoner in the face and making the arm of a corpse appear to wave. They titled the video 'Ramadi Madness' after the restive Sunni Muslim city where it was made. Ramadi, about 70 miles west of Baghdad, has been one of the main hubs for Iraqi insurgents and their attacks. REUTERS/Ali al-Mashadani




Masked and armed insurgents roam the streets in the city of Ramadi, west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, March 9, 2005. Insurgents took the streets of the city a day after a video showed U.S. Army soldiers filming themselves kicking a gravely wounded prisoner in the face and making the arm of a corpse appear to wave. They titled the video 'Ramadi Madness' after the restive Sunni Muslim city where it was made. Ramadi, about 113 Km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, has been one of the main hubs for Iraqi insurgents and their attacks. REUTERS/Ali al-Mashadani




A masked and armed insurgent runs across a street near a mosque in the city of Ramadi, west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, March 9, 2005. Insurgents took the streets of the city a day after a video showed U.S. army soldiers filming themselves kicking a gravely wounded prisoner in the face and making the arm of a corpse appear to wave. They titled the video 'Ramadi Madness' after the restive Sunni Muslim city where it was made. Ramadi, about 113 kms (70 miles) west of Baghdad, has been one of the main hubs for Iraqi insurgents and their attacks. REUTERS/Ali al-Mashadani






Insurgents carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers take up position in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold 113 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad in Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, March 9, 2005. Iraqi soldiers sealed off the roads leading to Ramadi on Wednesday and insurgents roamed the city streets, causing shops to close and the streets to empty of civilians fearing possible clashes. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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7. No shortage of RPGs I take it, or guys to carry them around. nt

[Cocoa]

5. wrong kind of mass graves for TV

TV only likes certain kinds of mass graves.

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8. 30 Iraqis slain near Syria border as Baghdad truck bomb kills four

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=1&u=/afp/20050309/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_050309180050
30 Iraqis slain near Syria border as Baghdad truck bomb kills four

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Thirty people were found shot dead in a known troublespot on the Iraq (news - web sites)-Syrian border and a suicide truck bomb attack on Baghdad's agriculture ministry and a hotel occupied by US contractors killed four and wounded 40.



Also in Baghdad, Iraq's outgoing planning minister Mahdi al-Hafidh escaped an assassination attempt that killed two of his guards and wounded one, an Iraqi official told AFP.

The attack happened around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) near the Saudi embassy in the upscale Mansur area on the capital's west side, undersecretary of culture Maysun al-Damluji said.

In the latest episode of gruesome violence, Iraqi security forces retrieved the bodies of at least 30 people, all shot in the head or chest, near the restive Iraqi-Syrian border town of Qaim........

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9. kick to combine

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10. Women, kids found among Iraqi corpses

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities found 41 decomposed bodies -- some bullet-riddled, others beheaded -- at sites near the Syrian border and south of the capital, and said Wednesday that they included women and children who may have been killed because insurgents thought their families were collaborating with the U.S.
In Baghdad, a suicide bomber driving a garbage truck loaded with explosives and at least one other gunman shot their way into a parking lot in an attempt to blow up a hotel used by Western contractors. At least four people, including the attackers and a guard, were killed.

The U.S. Embassy said 30 Americans were among 40 people wounded in the blast. No Americans were killed. In an Internet statement, al-Qaida in Iraq purportedly claimed responsibility for the attack on the Sadeer hotel, calling it the "hotel of the Jews."

Police said the attack on the Sadeer hotel began when insurgents wearing police uniforms shot to death a guard at the Agriculture Ministry's gate, allowing the truck to enter a compound the ministry shares with the hotel. Guards fired on the vehicle and it exploded.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=340469