Heads in the Sand

80 bodies found in Baghdad heighten sectarian fears

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi police found 80 bodies, shot or strangled to death, in and around Baghdad over the past two days, security officials said, amid fears of a new outbreak in sectarian killings.

The surge in bloodletting followed closely on Sunday's car bombings of market places in a Shiite district of the capital which left 46 dead and wounded 200.

Early Tuesday, 15 men, who appeared to have been hanged, were discovered in the back of a pick-up truck parked in the capital's western Al-Khadra district.

One of the victims, who still had identity papers on him, was identified at the Baghdad morgue as a 22-year-old Sunni student whose first name was Laith.

Just a week ago, 18 men killed in a similar fashion were found crammed into a minibus parked in the city.

The war whores have their heads in the sand if they think Iraq is some 'haven of democracy'.