What is going on in Iraq?

[ProSense]

US troops accused of new murders in Iraq

by Kamal Taha
20 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US troops faced fresh accusations of unlawful killings of civilians in Iraq as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the release of 2,500 detainees in a gesture to promote national reconciliation.

The Iraqi Islamic Party, the main Sunni Arab political party, on Tuesday accused US forces of murdering more than two dozen Iraqis in a series of incidents across the country in May.

"The US forces have violated human rights many times across Iraq," said Omar al-Juburi, spokesman for the human rights department of the party which is led by Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi.

In the latest in a string of allegations against US forces, Juburi said 29 Iraqis were killed in May in separate incidents involving US forces in the towns of Latifiyah and Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, and in the capital itself.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060606/ts_afp/iraq_060606152515

[ProSense]

1. Nine killed in Iraq as severed heads found in box

Nine killed in Iraq as severed heads found in box

1 hour, 56 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least nine people have been killed in attacks across Iraq, including mortars fired at the interior ministry, as police found nine severed heads in a box used to carry fruit.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, meanwhile, ordered the phased release of 2,500 prison detainees on Tuesday, in what he described as a gesture to "promote national reconciliation".

The first batch of 500 prisoners were to be freed on Wednesday, from a total of 28,700 detainees being held in Iraqi and US prisons across the country, as of April 30.

Two men were killed and seven wounded as insurgents fired three mortars which crashed near the interior ministry building,

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060606/ts_afp/iraqunrest_060606101122

[datasuspect]

2. yeah, but but but

they have rebuilt the power delivery infrastructure to 35% of its pre-invansion capacity!

GE donated some portable buildings to make a school!!!!


why do you guy just focus on the negative!!!????1111





joking

[ProSense]

3. No Escaping Iraq Violence

No Escaping Iraq Violence

Gunmen abduct more than 50 at a bus zone in Baghdad, where daily life can be torn apart without warning.
By Megan K. Stack and Saif Rasheed, Times Staff Writers
June 6, 2006

BAGHDAD — Clad in camouflage uniforms, the gunmen came peeling through the thick morning heat in police trucks. They stopped at a downtown strip of travel companies where Iraqis gather each morning to board buses bound for the safer lands of Syria and Jordan.

The gunmen leaped to the ground, witnesses said, and they worked fast. They seized more than 50 bystanders, pulling men away from their families and hauling drivers from behind the wheels of the buses. They handcuffed the men, blindfolded them and stuffed them into the backs of the trucks like human loot. They covered some of their captives with sheets.

And then they were gone, slamming doors and speeding off into the brilliant morning sunlight. It was only 9 o'clock in a city where security has come unraveled, just another mundane scene that splintered suddenly into violence.

"Those are criminals going after the ransom," said Saad Tawil, a 42-year-old manager of one of the travel companies clustered on the street in downtown Baghdad. "They will see who is important or rich, and who is not, after interrogating them."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq6jun06,0,5312194.story

[fishnfla]

4. They bypassed civil war and went straight to anarchy

The US troops are just the largest of the militias going at it

[Dhalgren]

5. Not the largest, but definitely the best armed...

[Bandit]

7. Did you know Turkey has 250,000 troops in and near Iraq

They are controlling the northern border (Kurdish area) and have a quarter million troops engaged. They are actually making sweeps inside Iraq.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. Kicked and Recommended

[jwirr]

8. A BUSH Family Style War.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

9. New atrocities every single day

Seems every day there's a new headline about some horrible attack, or discovery of bodies. Every day.

Welcome to Operation Iraqi Freedom.