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<P class=headlineblack>Iraqi Authorities Discover 60 Mutilated, Bullet-Ridden
Bodies in Baghdad</P>
<P><B>Tuesday , October 10, 2006</B></P>
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<P>BAGHDAD, Iraq — Authorities found <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>the
mutilated bodies of 60 men in Baghdad in the 24-hours ending Tuesday morning,
and at least 22 people died in violence around the country</FONT></STRONG>,
including 11 in a midday bombing in the capital.</P>
<P>The bomb, planted under a car in the primarily Sunni neighborhood of Dora in
south Baghdad, exploded just before noon, police <A
href="javascript:siteSearch('Lt. Muhammed al-Baghdadi');"><B>Lt. Muhammed
al-Baghdadi</B></A> said.</P>
<P>Those killed, and the four others injured, were waiting in line outside a
bakery, witnesses told Associated Press Television News. The blast flattened the
building.</P>
<P>"Even the bakeries aren't safe from the terrorists," yelled a distraught
young man at the scene, saying even more victims were buried under the rubble.
"These were innocent people."</P>
<P><A href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/iraq/index.html">CountryWatch:
Iraq</A></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>The bullet-riddled bodies found in the capital
all had their hands and feet bound and showed signs of torture — hallmarks of
death-squad killings</FONT></STRONG>, police 1st Lt. Mohamed Khayon said.</P>
<P>The victims ranged in age from between 20 to 50-years-old, he said. Their
bodies had been dumped in several neighborhoods.</P>
<P>Sectarian death squads have killed thousands in recent months and Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki is coming under increased pressure to find an end to
the violence.</P>
<P>Chief U.S. military spokesman <A
href="javascript:siteSearch('Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell');"><B>Maj. Gen.
William B. Caldwell</B></A> said Monday that there had been a spike in sectarian
violence with the onset of Ramadan two weeks ago, though did not provide
numbers.</P>
<P>"We anticipated it and we expect it to continue," Caldwell said. "The
sectarian tensions in the city are high."</P>
<P>On Tuesday, the body of the brother of a Baghdad police brigadier was found
shot dead, tied to a lamppost in Buhriz, 35 miles north of the capital, Baqouba
police said. Later authorities found the body of another of the brigadier's
brothers, also shot, lying in the street.</P>
<P>The bodies of two other shooting victims were found in Khalis, 50 miles north
of Baghdad, and another was found in Baqouba, police said.</P>
<P>In new attacks Tuesday, one policeman and six people were injured in the west
Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmouk when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol, police
1st Lt. Maithem Abdul Razzaq said.</P>
<P>In the primarily Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in north Baghdad, an evening
car bomb killed four and wounded nine others, police 1st Sgt. Mahmud Hussein
said.</P>
<P>Two Iraqi soldiers on foot patrol were killed in Musayyib, about 40 miles
south of Baghdad, by a roadside bomb, police Capt. Muthana Khalid Ali said.</P>
<P>Another soldier was killed in a drive-by shooting near Hillah, about 60 miles
south of Baghdad, Ali said.</P>
<P>In downtown Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, a former member of Saddam
Hussein's Baath party was gunned down by unidentified assailants, police Capt.
Hussein Karim said.</P>
<P>In the northern city of Mosul, a police colonel was killed in a drive-by
shooting as he walked through the city, police Col. Abdel-Karim al-Jubouri. A
civilian was also killed in the city in a second drive-by shooting, he said.</P>
<P>Meanwhile, authorities updated their casualty figures from the car bombing
Monday in Shaab, a mainly Shiite district of Baghdad, that came soon after the
evening's iftar meal. Police Capt. Ali al-Obeidi said an additional three people
had died, bringing the casualty totals to 13 killed and 46
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