Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Bodies found garrotted in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Bodies found garrotted in Iraq - Yahoo! News: "BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The bodies of 18 men -- bound, blindfolded and strangled -- were found in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad, apparent victims of the sectarian turmoil gripping
Iraq that threatens the formation of a coalition government.

Iraq's Shi'ite interior minister, a hate figure for many Sunnis who accuse him of condoning death squads, escaped an apparent assassination attempt on Wednesday after his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb as it left the ministry compound in Baghdad. The minister, however, was not in his car."

And some say there is no civil war in Iraq because ... ?