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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (749348)	9/15/2006 1:05:16 PM
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More than 100 bodies found in Iraq amid 'disaster' warning hemscott.com BAGHDAD (AFX) - More than 100 bullet-riddled corpses have been recovered from the streets of Baghdad over the past three days, officials said on Friday, amid a sharp spike in sectarian violence in Iraq. Pointing the finger at Shiite death squads, Iraq's top Sunni leader Adnan al-Dulaimi said that 'well-known militias' were behind the communal bloodletting that he warned was propellling the country towards 'disaster.' The United Nations has also warned that Iraq could slide into civil war as the daily bloodshed shows no signs of abating despite political efforts for national reconciliation. In the past three days, security forces have collected bodies of more than 100 people killed in Shiite-Sunni violence, the epicentre of which is Baghdad. US and Iraqi security officials say most were shot dead execution-style with bullet to their heads and many showed signs of torture. Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf told AFP that 51 bodies had been recovered in Baghdad in the past 24 hours. He said some of them had been killed in 'criminal activities.' On Thursday, police reported finding 20 corpses and on Wednesday 64 bodies were registered by the capital's morgues. 'A large portion of those are murder, execution-style type activity. It is associated with sectarian violence,' US military spokesman Major General William Caldwell told reporters on Thursday. The violence in Baghdad has surged despite a massive security crackdown -- Operation Together Forward -- by US and Iraqi forces since mid-June. Sunni Arab leaders have regularly charged that the sectarian killings are carried out by militias linked to Shiite political parties who dominate the parliament. Meanwhile, the US military announced that seven US troops had been killed across Iraq in the past two days. newsdesk@afxnews.com afp/wj