Bloody Day in Iraq Leaves 182 Dead

Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.com

...At least 118 were killed in Baghdad alone, including one intelligence officer and Faris Khalil, a colonel in the Interior Ministry. At least thirteen more bodies were found throughout Baghdad on Monday, adding to the fifty that were found overnight Sunday. They were shot to death and bore signs of torture. It is believed that "sectarian death squads" killed them. Mortar attacks reportedly killed 1, injured 3 in northern Baghdad, while another mortar killed 1 and injured 8 in the Ur district. 8 fatal shooting victims were delivered to a hospital in the Yarmouk district. Roadside bombs killed 3, injured 8 in the Saadoun district; wounded 3 more in the Yarmouk district and 2 in Eastern Baghdad. Another bomb targeting police killed 2, injured 2, in the Waziriya district, but whether the casualties were police or civilians is unconfirmed. A noontime bomb blast at a market in Al Nasr reportedly killed 4 and injured 13...

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