Massacre in Iraqi 'triangle of death' -14 Shiite men/women gunned downed

[stop the bleeding]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Fourteen Shiite men and women were gunned down in an area south of Iraq's capital known as the "triangle of death", as a US soldier died in a bomb blast and a Lebanese was kidnapped in Baghdad.

On the political front, the International Mission for Iraqi Elections announced it was sending assessors to Iraq to help investigate complaints of fraud in the December 15 general elections, while Shiite and Kurdish leaders -- whose lists topped the polls -- held talks on setting up a government.

Shiite-based religious parties have rebuffed calls by Sunni Arabs and secular factions for a re-run of the election and the electoral commission has suggested that, while some ballots might be cancelled because of fraud, this would not affect overall results.

UN and US spokesmen have also expressed confidence in the election results whose final tally is expected next week.

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12/29/2005 Massacre in Iraqi 'triangle of death' - AFP - yahoo.com

[acmavm]

1. That place is a total fiasco, thanks to you-know-who and his

thug buddies. I don't care what the bush** administration thinks (excuse the exaggeration please), but when this place goes up like a Roman candle, no one's going to come out of it with anything to show for it. The stupidity involved in this mess is got to be record-setting. How these fools could ever been ignorant and arrogant enough to think that they could go in there, bomb the place to smithereens, and then install Chalabi and grab all the oil goodies is mind boggling. If these buffoons are an example of what our colleges turn out, what the 'cream' of American education and breeding can produce, then we are indeed goners.