Most of the corpses are young people who have been shot and then hacked to pieces, according to the head of the Swaira police force, who asked that his name not be printed.
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| Iraq's Tigris River Yields Hundreds of Corpses |
| 2006-10-08 |
More Than 300 Bodies Have Been Found in the River Since 2005, Many of Them Young PeopleMost of the corpses are young people who have been shot and then hacked to pieces, according to the head of the Swaira police force, who asked that his name not be printed. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #7 Self memo: don't order fish dishes in Iraqi restaurants. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-10-08 20:11 |
| #6 The fishing is the same, but the sheep, goats, and doneys are more relaxed. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-10-08 20:02 |
| #5 Is this making the fishing better or worse ? |
| Posted by: SpecOp35 2006-10-08 19:15 |
| #4 Why not use a bunch of drones to patrol the dumping grounds with quick reaction forces to corner the dumpers? |
| Posted by: Danking70 2006-10-08 16:40 |
| #3 Today, it's mostly Sunnis kidnapped by the the Sadrists as the Shiite cops look the other way, tortured, killed and dumped. The Sunnis are killing mostly with explosives. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-10-08 14:42 |
| #2 So who are they? Sunnis, Shiites, or what? Here in Manhattan, the people whose bodies turn up in the East River are generally people whose absence make the world a better place. While I don't advocate or condone murder, I do wonder whether the people being killed here are fine upstanding citizens, or local hoodlums who met vigilante justice. Or something in between. |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-10-08 14:33 |
| #1 And if we delve into that river's thousands upon thousands of years of history, I'm sure there are millions of bones with plenty of sordid stories to tell. The more things change .... |
| Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-10-08 13:13 |