54 Iraq ‘Death Squad Caught in Act’

This is a big breakthrough. For years, a friend in Baghdad has been collecting information from morgues about Sunnis turning up dead, their bodies showing signs of torture, in back alleys. She said everyone suspected death squads. She’d been trying to identify the bodies, as an end in itself and to look into the possibility that these were either former Baathists or current insurgents. But she said many of the bodies went unidentified, that people go missing in Baghdad all the time and it’s hard for families to find out what happened. Until now, there was no hard and fast way of fixing the blame on anyone.

So what happens if it turns out the perpetrators of these crimes are linked, even indirectly, to the parties now in government? Or to (gulp) Iran?

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  1. […] This is just about the worst possible thing that could happen in Iraq right now. This should be an outrage to any Muslim or to anyone who believes in the value of the world’s historical heritage. It’s probably no coincidence that this latest rash of bombings against Shia targets comes immediately after the Feb. 16 report that an Iraqi Interior Ministry “death squad” has been targetting Iraqi Sunnis. […]

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