Nine severed police heads found in Saddam's hometown

[Barrett808]

TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - Nine severed heads of policemen were found in the central Iraqi city of Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein.

Two boxes containing the heads were tossed out of a speeding car in the centre of Tikrit, the capital of Salaheddin province, a police officer said Saturday. Decapitation is a signature of extremist Islamist groups like Al-Qaeda.

The discovery comes as the overwhelmingly Sunni province marked the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time of prayer and introspection across the region and increased violence in Iraq.

On Thursday, some 500 people demonstrated in downtown Tikrit calling for the release of Saddam, the ousted president currently being tried on charges of genocide for killing 182,000 Kurds in 1987-1988.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060923/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunresttikrit

Also:

Gunmen throw decapitated heads into open-air market in Beiji

...In a grisly scene in Beiji, about 155 miles north of Baghdad, gunmen threw the decapitated heads of ten men into a popular open-air market at about 4:30 p.m., police said. They then fled the scene.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_060923131615

[BootinUp]

1. freedom can be messy. n/t

[w4rma]

7. Stuff happens. Freedom is untidy.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/11/sprj.irq.pentagon/

[Union Thug]

2. Wasn't this a joe pesci movie - 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag!

Sorry to be irreverent, but sometimes its the only way to survive this madness.

[angstlessk]

3. Is this two seperate incidents?

my puter is so slow today, it took forever for the yahoo story to come up.

[Barrett808]

5. I think they are separate incidents: one in Tikrit, the other in Beiji

Yes?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

4. Safer today than before?

Look what our incompetant leaders have unleashed, on the Iraqui people, through their blundering greed.

[MrPrax]

6. Typical propaganda reporting...

"...the hometown of Saddam Hussein. "
relevence?

"Decapitation is a signature of extremist Islamist groups like Al-Qaeda."
really...um...this incident specifically?

"as the overwhelmingly Sunni province"
significance of which means...?

"marked the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan"
significance again with this particular incident

"On Thursday, some 500 people demonstrated in downtown Tikrit calling for the release of Saddam"
...so it's related?

Maybe they were killed because they are collaborating with the American occupation!!!...nawh nawh nawh...

It's AQ, during Ramdan, a time of increased sectarian violence ...none of which is actually referenced anywhere in this propaganda piece which only references it's own narrative.

For further information about Iraq reporting reliability, please read:
I Was A PR Intern in Iraq
By Willem Marx

Alternet currently featured in this month's Harpers

[ECH1969]

8. Do you think the beheaders care if they worked with the US or not?

If we left tomorrow the beheaders would still be interested in doing the same thing to anyone who gets in their way.

Those that torture and behead are not rebels they are monsters.

[MrPrax]

9. Yes n/t

[oblivious]

10. That was fascinating reading.

[NOLADEM]

11. Slow day?

:shrug:

[rodeodance]

12. beyond grizzly. I feel for the families of these people.

[Telly Savalas]

13. Didn't Rumsfeld once try to compare the level of violence in Iraq

with the crime rate in Washington, DC?

Can anybody in the DC area confirm that beheadings of police officers is par for the course in your area?

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Golly. Those freedom-lovers really know how to party, don't they?