Iraqi police find 14 more tortured corpses

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/September/focusoniraq_September63.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Iraqi police pursued their grim morning harvest of bodies Sunday, finding the remains of 14 more victims of a vicious sectarian conflict, some of them with severed heads.

Seven mutilated bodies were fished out of the Tigris river in the town of Suwayrah, at a spot southeast of the war-torn capital where murder victims wash up on a daily basis.

The bullet-riddled corpses of three men were found under a bridge on the road north from Baghdad to Balad.

Police also came upon three bodies during a raid on a warehouse in the capital, while another corpse was recovered in the southern city of Amara.

[Philosoraptor]

1. Happy Operation Enduring Freedom Day!

[Philosoraptor]

2. almost EVERYONE found dead has been tortured

and this has been going on all year, I'd guess that 2000 have died in this manner.

[Jcrowley]

3. Smells like

Negroponte. Same recipe.

U.S. count of Baghdad deaths excludes car bombs, mortar attacks
By Mark Brunswick and Zaineb Obeid
McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials, seeking a way to measure the results of a program aimed at decreasing violence in Baghdad, aren't counting scores of dead killed in car bombings and mortar attacks as victims of the country's sectarian violence.

In a distinction previously undisclosed, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said Friday that the United States is including in its tabulations of sectarian violence only deaths of individuals killed in drive-by shootings or by torture and execution.

That has allowed U.S. officials to boast that the number of deaths from sectarian violence in Baghdad declined by more than 52 percent in August over July.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15474438.htm

[me b zola]

5. If it walks, talks, and smells like the king of death squads.....

Check out this newsweek article from 2005:

‘The Salvador Option’
The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq
AP
Nuns pray over the bodies of four American sisters killed by the military in El Salvador in 1980

By Michael Hirsh and John Barry
Newsweek
Updated: 5:59 p.m. PT Jan 14, 2005

Jan. 8 - What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"—and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. (...)

Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success—despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras. (...)

Following that model, one Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers, even across the border into Syria, according to military insiders familiar with the discussions. (...)

Also being debated is which agency within the U.S. government—the Defense department or CIA—would take responsibility for such an operation. Rumsfeld’s Pentagon has aggressively sought to build up its own intelligence-gathering and clandestine capability with an operation run by Defense Undersecretary Stephen Cambone.(...)

~~more @ link~~
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek

[Philosoraptor]

4. .........

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[Skidmore]

6. That's what freedom and democracy looks like....

tortured dead corpses. As George "Wetorture" Boosh...

Hell, we're gonna pass him some laws that says he can torture anyone he wants to anytime he wants to.