Thursday, July 12, 2007

Iraq 'Progress Report': More Than 50 Tortured Bodies Found in Baghdad, Officials Executed, Police Attacked

Iraq 'Progress Report': More Than 50 Tortured Bodies Found in Baghdad, Officials Executed, Police Attacked

Reuters Alternet, July 11th, 2007

* BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed at least 11 people when they locked them inside a house in the town of Garma west of Baghdad and then blew it up, the U.S. military said. A spokesman said it may have been a "vendetta attack" against the owner who is involved with the provincial security forces.

BAGHDAD - Police said they found 30 bodies on the streets of Baghdad, victims of sectarian death squads. They said eight bodies were found in the Sunni district of Doura alone.

GARMA - At least seven members of one family were killed when gunmen broke into their house in Garma, west of Baghdad, and planted explosives inside and blew it up, police said.

SAMARRA - The mayor of Samarra, a mainly Sunni city 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, was shot dead, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found 26 bodies in Baghdad on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD - At least four policemen were killed and two others wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in northern Baghdad on Tuesday evening, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - At least two people were killed and 17 wounded when four mortar bombs landed in a residential area in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad on Tuesday evening, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen killed a civil servant when they broke into his home in Iskandariya on Tuesday evening, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a police commando checkpoint, killing one policeman in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. Eight civilians were wounded.

FALLUJA - A suicide motorcycle bomber attacked a police patrol on Tuesday, wounding two policemen in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

HASWA - Police found two bodies showing signs of torture in Haswa, 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed a policeman inside his car in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

NAJAF - Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a police intelligence officer in northern Najaf on Tuesday evening, police said.

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