14 executed Iraqis found in Baghdad

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050506/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestbaghdadbodies_050506100906

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi police found the bodies of 14 men, hands bound and wearing blindfolds, shot dead with a bullet to the head, in northeastern Baghdad.


"The 14 victims were wearing white dishdashas (traditional Arab gowns) and were unearthed. They all had their hands tied and had been shot in the head," an interior ministry official told AFP.

Locals alerted the police to the fact that people were using a bulldozer to bury bodies in a vacant lot in the Kisra wa Atash district.

"When the police arrived on the scene, the driver of the bulldozer ran away. We found two bodies on the spot and 12 more when we dug up the area," the official said Friday.

"The bodies are probably a day or two old and we think the unidentified victims come from a rural area," he added.

[LynnTheDem]

1. MASS GRAVES! MASS GRAVES!

THANK GOD BUSH INVADED or there'd be even MORE mass graves!!!

[leftchick]

2. That Iraqi Security Force thingy isn't working so well...

If they aren't quitting and getting killed they are protesting. I am sure bushco** is pleased. Can't ya smell the success?

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Bodies of Iraqi policemen and soldiers lie in the morgue of a local hospital in Baghdad. Twenty-two people were killed in a series of attacks in Baghdad including eight policemen shot dead in their squad cars and 13 torn to pieces in a bomb blast at an army recruitment centre(AFP/Ali Al-Saadi)

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Iraqi police demonstrate in front of the mayor's office in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad demanding that their salaries be reinstated following a recent pay cut(AFP/Qassem Zein)

[DrDebug]

3. It's amazing that there are still people willing to join the Iraqi police

You get less salary, an ever increasing chance of getting shot and you are hated by all.

[eridani]

4. Not with 60% unemployment

That makes people put up with a lot.

[leftchick]

5. I believe it is 70% now

Those $400.00 a month paychecks (IF they get them!) make them take the risks. :(

[LynnTheDem]

6. It still amazes me; the #1 SUPERPOWER in the universe CAN'T CONTROL

the rebels...so they hand over security to untrained, unequipped Iraqi "police".

Now if we got the HELL OUT of Iraq like the Iraqis want, the Iraqis could put down any not-rebels-just-garden-variety-criminals-and-terrorists in a frigging heartbeat.

But until then, the Iraqis see the Iraqi cops as COLLABORATORS.

And guess what EVERYONE ALWAYS does, even America, to COLLABORATORS.