700 Iraqi Policemen Under Investigation For “Possible Complicity” With Death Squads...

Associated Press SAMEER N. YACOUB October 4, 2006 at 12:37 PM
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Iraqi authorities have taken a brigade of up to 700 policemen out of service and put members under investigation for "possible complicity" with death squads following a mass kidnapping earlier this week, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a series of bombs went off in rapid succession in a shopping district in a mainly Christian neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 16 people and wounding 87, police said. The dead were among 26 people killed in attacks acrossIraq.

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