IRAQ: River Tigris becoming a graveyard of bodies

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/bbc635469a6b3073f9b596fc7cf9fdae.htm

<snip>Every day local police haul bodies from the Tigris bearing signs of torture. Locals who live near the river constantly see floating bodies.

The situation is even worse in Suwayrah, a southern area of the capital, where the government has built barriers with huge iron nets to trap plants and garbage dropped in the river but now this is also a barrier for bodies.

"Since January 2006 at least 800 bodies have been dragged from those iron nets, and this figure does not include those collected from the central section of the river. Most of the bodies are unidentified and buried without family claims," said Col Abdel-Waheed Azzam, a senior officer in the investigation department of the Ministry of Interior.

According to Azzam, 90 percent of the bodies found in the river show signs of serious torture. "Because of the state of the bodies, it is not useful to try to have an autopsy done, and if the bodies are not claimed within 24 hours they are automatically buried," he said.

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1. "But the world's a better place without Saddam..."

Isn't that still a Bush Regime Supporter talking point? One designed to shut down criticism of the invasion?

I think they need to find some new talking points.

What a nightmare.