Remains of 40 found in mass grave

Source: IHT

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi police on Wednesday discovered a mass grave near Ramadi with at least 40 bodies, some of them children, and a suicide car bomb exploded inside the city near a courthouse, killing at least 6 people and wounding 8.

Tariq al-Dulaimai, a police commander in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, said that the grave was found in al-Muwaili, an area controlled until recently by Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni extremist group that American officials describe as foreign-led. It was unclear when the victims were killed, but the grisly discovery and the car bomb — the largest attack on Ramadi since at least September — comes after months of improvement in the city, which had been Iraq's deadliest metropolis.

Lieutenant General James Dubik, who oversees the American training of Iraqi police, said Wednesday that the violence underscored the frailty of Iraq's relative calm.

"While the security situation is much better now than in previous months, the enemies of security in Iraq still have the capacity and desire for ruthless attacks," he said at a news conference in Baghdad. "The war is not over."

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Iraqi security officials have said that more corpses are being discovered because more patrols are able to move around areas that had been under the control of the insurgent group, and they have publicized the graves as a sign of that group's barbarism. But the graves also suggest that the statistics indicating a recent decline in civilian deaths may have been overstated.


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Progress in Iraq. Deaths are down. They are running out of people to "liberate" to death. How stupid can these neocons be?

LOL

and yes, Ramadi was the HQ of AQ in Iraq...or mesopotamia. Whatever their websites claimed them to be.
But I don't know why the videos they make so abundantly available for purchase in the street bizaars of the ME are not shown in the west....go figger...

Proves a bias in reporting ?

if certain Security Contractors are behind these mass graves??? :shrug:

someone.

They stand "at ease" like trained military (or ex military,like mercs often are) personnel.

scary thing is, these Blackwater pricks train in my back yard basically. About 10 miles to the North. Their military training compound is bigger than any, and I mean ANY other Military base around here.. Bigger than Langley, Oceana, Norfolk Shipyard.. All of them, and now they are building an airport, complete with a fleet of fighter jets and reconnaissance blimps that fly at 35,000 ft. (You know, like the blimps the nazi's used.).. To be used overseas and domestically on the borders they say!

I'll bet a certain Democratic contender would like them to continue with their "thoughtful" trepidations in 2009

showing these 'freedom fighters"

"an area controlled until recently by Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni extremist group that American officials describe as foreign-led."

The local people, (who we choose to call Al Qaeda and foreign led, because that serves our propaganda purposes) used to control the area.

few will venture to read past a few talking points.
If people want the US troops out of Iraq you figure they would pray for the Iraqi's on this Thanksgiving day to continue to take back their country even though few here want to hear about it.