nope....no civil war here
Police in Baghdad find 72 bodies, shot and discarded
BAGHDAD (AP) — Police found at least 72 bodies killed by gunfire in Baghdad in the past 24 hours — a gruesome wave of apparent sectarian reprisal attacks in some of the capital's most dangerous neighborhoods, officials said Tuesday.
The bloodshed followed explosions in a teeming Shiite slum on Sunday in which 58 people died and more than 200 were wounded. The apparent retaliatory attacks marked the second wave of mass killings in Iraq since Feb. 22, when bombers destroyed an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra, north of the capital.
An abandoned minibus containing 15 bodies was found Tuesday on the main road between two mostly Sunni neighborhoods in west Baghdad, not far from where another minibus containing 18 bodies was discovered last week, said Interior Ministry official Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi.
Fourteen bodies — handcuffed and shot and dressed only in underwear — were discovered in southeast Baghdad, police Lt. Bilal Ali said.
At least 40 more bodies were discarded in various parts of Baghdad, including both Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, said al-Mohammedawi, while three bodies with gunshot wounds were found in Mosul, said Dr. Baha-Aldin al-Bakri at Mosul's Jumhouri Hospital.
Those killed in Baghdad included a number of bodies recovered from Sadr City, where two car bombs and four mortar rounds shattered shops and market stalls at nightfall Sunday, as residents shopped for food for their evening meals.
Scorched pavement, destroyed shops and burned-out cars awaited Shiite residents emerging from their homes Monday in Sadr City.