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| Iraq: Officials find 53 bullet-riddled bodies with tied up hands and blindfolds |
| 2014-07-10 |
| [FIRSTPOST] Iraqi officials discovered 50 bodies, many of them blindfolded and with their hands bound, in an agricultural area outside a city south of Baghdad on Wednesday, authorities said. Military front man Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim said the bodies had gunshot wounds and were found south of the city of Hillah, a predominantly Shiite city about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad. He said an investigation was underway to determine the identities of the dead as well as the circumstances of the killings. Representational image. Agencies.Representational image. Agencies. While the motives remain unclear, such grisly killings harken back to the worst days of Iraq's sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and 2007, when bodies were frequently dumped along roadsides, in empty lots, ditches and canals. As the levels of violence dropped from those heights, such discoveries became a rare occurrence. But since the Sunni myrmidon offensive that has swept across much of northern and western Iraq over the past month, authorities have begun to find bodies dumped on the streets, deepening fears of a possible return to sectarian warfare. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 'Sounds like 53 more "good Muslims". |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2014-07-10 22:21 |
| #5 committed suicide by worshipping Allan |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-10 18:11 |
| #4 Who cares? |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2014-07-10 15:29 |
| #3 Shia eliminating potential Sunni fifth columnists? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-10 15:07 |
| #2 Savagery is to be expected. ISIS is not the first and I doubt the last. I'm not the author. Tamerlane Rise up, little Khan As you claim to be You're birth a calm before the storm A twisted child, a broken form And empires wait, in ignorance Lands will be yours Lands will be yours |
| Posted by: mossomo 2014-07-10 12:45 |
| #1 Islam. The middle eastern demonic death cult religion. ISIS demons in time will attain the next level of savagery that Al Qaeda demons could only hope for in the west. |
| Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-10 09:23 |