Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Media: The Associated Press
Byline:
Date: 25 October 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq_Police in the southern Iraqi city of Kut recovered the bodies
Wednesday of seven men bearing signs of torture typical of victims of
sectarian death squads.
All seven men were handcuffed and had been shot multiple times, said Hadi
al-Atabi, an administrator at the morgue in Kut, 160 kilometers (100 miles)
southeast of Baghdad.
One of the bodies was identified as Mejdi Naor, an electric company security
guard who had been reported kidnapped five days ago, al-Atabi said.
Al-Atabi said police recovered the bodies in the Al-Khensa area of Suwayrah,
a town to the north of Kut, on Wednesday.
The area lies in the Shiite heartland, where militias accused of operating
death squads have clashed with each other and Iraqi security forces. In
Baghdad, those groups have been accused of targeting rival Sunnis in a
campaign of terror aimed at driving them mixed neighborhoods of the capital.
Bodies are found regularly in Baghdad and floating in the Tigris river
downstream _ sometimes scores in a single day _ most of them believed to
have been abducted by death squads who grab victims from their homes, off
the street, or at phony police roadblocks.
Although reining in the militias is considered a priority for restoring
security, Iraq's fragile Shiite-dominated government depends on the Shiite
political parties for support and has been slow to act against the armed
groups they sponsor.
Byline:
Date: 25 October 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq_Police in the southern Iraqi city of Kut recovered the bodies
Wednesday of seven men bearing signs of torture typical of victims of
sectarian death squads.
All seven men were handcuffed and had been shot multiple times, said Hadi
al-Atabi, an administrator at the morgue in Kut, 160 kilometers (100 miles)
southeast of Baghdad.
One of the bodies was identified as Mejdi Naor, an electric company security
guard who had been reported kidnapped five days ago, al-Atabi said.
Al-Atabi said police recovered the bodies in the Al-Khensa area of Suwayrah,
a town to the north of Kut, on Wednesday.
The area lies in the Shiite heartland, where militias accused of operating
death squads have clashed with each other and Iraqi security forces. In
Baghdad, those groups have been accused of targeting rival Sunnis in a
campaign of terror aimed at driving them mixed neighborhoods of the capital.
Bodies are found regularly in Baghdad and floating in the Tigris river
downstream _ sometimes scores in a single day _ most of them believed to
have been abducted by death squads who grab victims from their homes, off
the street, or at phony police roadblocks.
Although reining in the militias is considered a priority for restoring
security, Iraq's fragile Shiite-dominated government depends on the Shiite
political parties for support and has been slow to act against the armed
groups they sponsor.