50 bodies found in Baghdad

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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/50_bodies_found_in_Baghdad.html?siteSect=143&sid=7313382&cKey=1165229555000

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police found some 50 bodies with gunshot wounds in Baghdad over the past day, an Interior Ministry source said on Monday, a day after U.N. chief Kofi Annan declared Iraq's plight as worse than civil war.

Sectarian death squads have made the Iraqi capital a killing field and many of the bodies had been bound and tortured.

U.S. President George W. Bush was to host one of the most powerful leaders of the Muslim Shi'ite majority, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who strongly denies charges that his supporters are among those who carry out assassinations. snip

Hakim's SCIRI movement maintains close ties to U.S. adversaries in Shi'ite Iran where the party was founded. Bush will also meet Iraq's Sunni vice president this month.

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1. Is this in addition to the 44 reported yesterday? I honestly can't keep count.

Were this happening in any other country, this would be constant news...evidently Arabs don't count as news unless they are Princes, Emirs, or the newest incarnation of Emmanuel Goldstein.

O, Ed Said, you were too young to have left us! Your "orientalism" thesis is alive and thriving, however.