More Bodies Found in Iraq, Total Up to 45

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq/nc:716

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three Iraqis were found shot dead near a Baghdad dam on Monday and a slain Iraqi Kurd was left in a garbage dump in northern Iraq, raising the number of bodies found in recent days to 45. The government vowed to find those responsible, saying insurgents were seeking to exploit sectarian rivalries.

Elsewhere, mortar barrages, roadside bombings and drive-by shootings killed at least 10 Iraqis, including four soldiers who died in a roadside bomb attack as they raced to a fire station that had come under mortar fire.

Batches of bodies, many blindfolded and bound, were found in various areas over the weekend, from a garbage-strewn vacant lot in Baghdad's Sadr City to a Latifiyah chicken farm south of the capital in a region dubbed the Triangle of Death.

The spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari condemned the killings and said security forces were determined to catch those responsible.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. This death squad stuff looks like tho work of Negroponte

[daleo]

2. Gifts for Condi Rice, I think.

From somebody, not sure who, but it seems like a message to her.

[Lexingtonian]

3. On NPR this morning

the reporters were saying that, according to relatives of the people killed, they were all people arrested at their homes by government military people.

Yep, death squads.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. *sigh*

People who don't understand history are indeed doomed to repeat it

[Barrett808]

5. It is reminiscent of the El Playon dumping ground

Among other unhappy places during the Dirty War.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Yep..and El Mozote

[killbotfactory]

4. ...

[dubyaD40web]

6. Your link doesn't work.

Here's the story:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq