Four U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in 24 hours
Reuters
U.S. soldier was killed when guerrillas attacked his patrol in eastern Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said. In another statement earlier, the military said three U.S. Marines were killed in action in Anbar province in western Iraq on Sunday. The largely desert province is the heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government and U.S forces. It is the deadliest area in Iraq for U.S. soldiers...
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Police recovered 35 bullet-riddled bodies across the Iraqi capital Sunday. Some of the bodies showed signs of torture. The bodies could not be immediately identified. Gunmen killed Amer al-Hashemi, the brother of Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi in northern Baghdad on Monday. Police reported the discovery in Baghdad of the bullet-riddled body of Colonel Thamir Selman, a senior Interior Ministry official. Eleven soldiers were kidnapped when gunmen overran a military checkpoint in Baghdad on Monday. The gunmen arrived at the Sadr City checkpoint in a minivan and a car at 7 am, said police lieutenant Thaer Mahmoud. They seized all the soldiers on duty and made off. In west Baghdad, two security guards at a municipal building were killed by unidentified gunmen. Gunmen shot dead police Colonel Faleh al-Obeidi in the religiously mixed city of Baquba. Monday, gunmen killed police Lt. Col. Salih al-Karkhi in the Diyala capital of Baqouba....
Raid Othman al-Dulaimi, a 36-year-old engineer, still vividly recalls his suffering on a night last winter when his five-month ordeal with the Iraqi army began. The army raided his house in Baghdad in late December 2005 following a roadside bomb attack nearby. "They accused me of having links to the attackers. They put all of us in the garden and beat me in front of my wife and children. They overturned all the furniture and stole my private computer, money and gold," al-Dulaimi said, adding that he was taken to prison and beaten to elicit a confession. "After five months of insults and bad treatment they said, 'We are sorry, you have nothing to do with the terrorists,'" he said...
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