Posted on 06/26/2004 1:50:21 PM PDT by Selene
Kirkuk - Two headless bodies were found on Friday in the restive Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where police were on high alert after deadly attacks in four other cities the previous day, officials said.
"The two corpses were discovered in bags by the police, who have no idea who the victims are except that they look Iraqi," said a police source.
One torso was spotted on the main road to Salimaniyah and the second in the Askari district, the sources said.
"We don't know if they are Kurds, Turkmen or Arabs," he said, adding that "the inquiry will be difficult".
Turkmen, Kurds and Arabs populate the city of Kirkuk, 255km north of Baghdad, which has been the scene of numerous clashes since the fall of Saddam Hussein during last year's US-led invasion.
Have information of possible attacks
Earlier, city police chief General Turhan Yussef said Kirkuk's police force were on maximum alert in case of a terrorist attack.
"We have information of possible terrorist attacks against police stations or local officials," he said.
"This probability has been reinforced by the fact that one of Thursday's attacks took place in a city that was close to here," he said, referring to Mosul, 150km to the northeast, where a string of bomb blasts outside police stations killed 44 people and wounded 216.
"More than 5 000 policemen have been deployed all around Kirkuk, expecially in sensitive areas such as the city centre and towards the south - favoured targets for attacks," the police chief added.
Co-ordinated violence
The central cities of Baquba, Fallujah and Ramadi were also caught up in Thursday's co-ordinated violence.
It was the most serious challenge to the US-led coalition's efforts to restore stability since April, when Shiite Muslim radicals launched an uprising in central and southern Iraq.
In a further sign of the simmering unrest, unknown attackers shot dead a colonel of Saddam Hussein's former Republican Guard on Friday, the police said.
"They opened fire at 10:40 on the car of colonel Assud Hadidi near to his house, killing him," said police office Anwar Saber, noting that the colonel had refused to take part in Iraq's new security forces and had chosen to become a taxi driver instead.
His death was the eighth assassination of a senior member of the former regime in Kirkuk.
In a further sign of the simmering unrest, unknown attackers shot dead a colonel of Saddam Hussein's former Republican Guard on Friday, the police said.
= New Iraqi patriot militia, dispensing justice their own way.
let me guess. The victim's were wearing orange jump suits and a video will follow showing the victim sitting with 3 dudes standing behind him wearing ski masks. These terrorists are stuck in a rut. At some point the shock value on the sheeple wears off and is replaced with a calm resolve to wipe out these people and their families. We are already there and the public will get there eventually.
Goes back on what i told you earlier about them killing Muslims.
I've seen it with my own eyes and heard it. The radicals want Muslims dead as much as Christians and Jews.
Cyrus, you've posted some very good stuff here, and I trust your opinions. Can you give me your view on just "WHAT" is going on here? You know.....the big picture version.
I'd appreciate it.
later
These guys think they are intimidating us. Me thinks they must not be aware of how we responded to 09/11 - or Pearl Harbor - I do pity them if they do or have killed the Marine. I'm not afraid of much, but getting the whole of the USMC deadly mad at me is something I'd prefer to avoid. Come to think of it, the Navy, Army, and Air Force will also not be thrilled...all are soldiers, all could just as easily been in the same boat. Now that I ponder upon it a tad more, having the whole of the US Armed Forces deadly mad at me would be a very very very baaaaaaaad thing.
I think, if they find these guys, there will be a new parking lot right where the riff raff used to be.
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