Bodies of 7 family members found in Iraq orchard

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces found the bodies of seven family members on Tuesday, all bearing signs of torture and shot execution-style, as they hunted al Qaeda fighters outside Iraq's volatile city of Baquba, police said.

Police said the bodies were those of a father and his five sons as well as a nephew. The bodies, found in an orchard, had been identified by other family members, they said.

Diyala province, of which Baquba is the capital, has replaced western Anbar as one of the most violent areas of Iraq after Sunni Islamist al Qaeda was driven out of Anbar and the Baghdad area during security crackdowns last year.

While attacks, including suicide bombings which are most often blamed on al Qaeda, are common throughout Diyala, Tuesday's discovery was particularly gruesome and unusual because of the large number of family members involved.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L22828939.htm

[SpiralHawk]

1. "But on the bright side, oil & munitions profits are UP for republicon cronies." - Commander AWOL

"Oooops, almost forgot my republicon homelander Kompassionate Konservative propaganda Talking Point: 'too bad about the dead people and stuff.'"

- Commander AWOL

[defendandprotect]

3. Looks like "Operation Phoenix" moved into Iraq ... more of our handiwork ---

[PDJane]

2. I have a question.

when will the US admit to the number of civilian deaths and the swathe of destruction left behind by the way that you wage war.

[defendandprotect]

4. It's a secret . . . shhhh . . . they don't want the American public to understand that --- !!!

[CC]

5. About 25 to 50 years after

everything is over war wise in Iraq. Then the next idiot will become president and repeat history all over again somewhere else. Least seems to be the way it goes.