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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brasco One who wrote (6151)	10/24/2004 3:38:51 PM
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MORE NEWS Rebels have killed 50 unarmed army recruits BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Rebels have killed 50 unarmed army recruits in one of the bloodiest attacks on Iraq's nascent security forces and, in a separate attack, killed a U.S. diplomat in a mortar strike near Baghdad airport. The bodies of 37 recruits shot dead on a road northeast of Baghdad were found on Saturday and 12 were discovered on Sunday. "They were all executed, we found them executed," Interior Ministry spokesman Adnan Abdul-Rahman said. The attack was another blow to the efforts of the interim government to rebuild Iraqi security forces to tackle a raging insurgency that U.S.-led forces have failed to quell. "We found them arranged in groups of 12 with bullets in the head," Iraqi National Guard officer Jassim Saadi told Reuters television in the town of Mandali, near the Iranian border, where the bodies were brought after the ambush. The bodies, in torn and bloodstained civilian clothes, were taken in the back of trucks to a National Guard base in Mandali, where they were laid out in rows. Some bystanders wept. The recruits, based at Kirkush, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, had been heading for home leave in three minibuses when they were ambushed at about 8 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Saturday. Police said insurgents disguised as police had set up a checkpoint and stopped the buses. They forced them to leave the buses and lie face down on the tarmac before shooting them. Villagers heard the gunfire, found the bodies and called police. A dozen recruits who tried to flee were also shot. Their bodies were found on Sunday. The minibuses were burned. A senior security official, who asked not to be named, said most of the soldiers had been from poor families in the mainly Shi'ite cities of Basra, Amara and Nassiriya in southern Iraq. "It appears that they were ambushed by a large, well-organised force with good intelligence," the source said. Insurgents have frequently targeted Iraqis seen as cooperating with the U.S. military or the interim government. The headless body of an unidentified man in a business suit was found on Sunday with feet tied, floating in the Tigris River near the northern city of Kirkuk, police said. The body was the fourth to be recovered from the area in the past two months. The other three appeared to have been Iraqis working with U.S. forces, police said. Iraqi security forces have taken a more visible role in counter-insurgency operations in recent months and the U.S.- backed government sees them as a key weapon in its drive to win back control of all rebel areas before elections in January. Earlier this month gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying police back from training in Jordan and killed all nine occupants in an attack south of Baghdad. Suicide bombings have killed hundreds of army, police and National Guard recruits in recent months ------------------------------------------------- Sad to see these thugs breath the same air I breath.