Dozens of bodies discovered in Baghdad

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1716147,00.html

Dozens of bodies discovered in Baghdad

Iraqi police recovered the bodies of dozens of people in Baghdad today as violence spread across the country following the bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra.

The bodies were found riddled with bullets as fears grew that the country was sliding into civil war after the attack yesterday which destroyed the golden dome on the al-Askari shrine, one of Shia Islam's most revered sites.

Police and army officials said the bodies of 31 men were found at eight sites in the capital, predominantly in Shia areas. Most had their hands bound, and they had had all been shot.

At least 40 more bodies were found in the village of Nahrawan, south of the capital.

[acmavm]

1. Is this the 'messy' part of freedom Mr. Rumsfeld? n/t

[rodeodance]

2. my gawd.

[Debau2005]

3. Damn

We are doing a good job "over" there!:sarcasm:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. This has been going on for a while...

But it seems to be intensifying now. It's interesting not so much because of the executions but because of the way they're displaying the corpses. I'm not up enough on the situation to know who's sending the message and who the intended recipients are, but the message itself is clear enough.

[xchrom]

5. sad.

it's been a civil war -- but now the ''msm'' is starting to take it seriously.

the u.s. brought this -- and the ''msm'' did it's part to help this bloodshed along.

[chelsea0011]

6. Hey, it's not like they were found in mass graves.

The thousands above ground deaths are a small price for freedom.:sarcasm:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. I just wonder when that will start happening here

They'll start discovering the bodies outside the new civilian detention centers they're building all over the country shortly after they begin operation.........

[dweller]

8. just heard the body count is up to 98 n/t

dp

[dweller]

11. cbs radio news now reporting

well over 100 dead, with the addition of the latest bombing killing 16.

dp

[cantstandbush]

9. Bush has reaped the whirlwind in Iraq. The chickens will be coming

home to roost soon enough. What have we wrought on the world?

[IndianaGreen]

10. Meanwhile the "opposition" party has yet to formulate a clear policy

on withdrawing from Iraq and bringing the "Long War" to an end. Instead, the message we are getting from the likes of Biden is that Bush has mismanaged the war, instead of Bush should be impeached for lying us into war.

[VegasWolf]

12. Just my thought, but it might be time for a new "opposition" party. nt

[Javaman]

13. The slippery slope just turned into a free fall. n/t