Iraqis claim scores more hostages still missing

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Villagers in an area south of Baghdad where more than 50 bodies were pulled from the Tigris River said yesterday that scores more people kidnapped by insurgents were still missing.

The allegations added to an ongoing debate about the make-up of Iraq's security forces, with the incident cited by some as an example of the need to purge former members of Saddam Hussein's regime from the military and police forces. Some Shia politicians argue that former members of Mr Hussein's Ba'ath party, with connections to Sunni insurgents, have infiltrated the military and police.

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The new government is so blatently lying through their teeth on this. They got a bunch of people to say shit to reporters to start this bullshit and now they are doing it again. US soldiers in the area reported the Iraqis found a little over a dozen bodies in the Tigris over the past four days and the bodies were badly decayed meaning they have been there for some time. Basically, what this comes down to is that the new government wants the Sunnis out of the military and have pulled this totally bullshit story to give them a pretext.