IRAQ TODAY: It's Far Worse Than Under Sadaam

[Randy]

IRAQ TODAY: It's Far Worse Than Under Sadaam

More than 300 shooting victims are delivered to his morgue every month,
compared to about 16 under Saddam's iron grip.

Beheadings Now Routine For Iraqi Pathologist
By Michael Georgy
10-11-4

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The beheading of hostage Ken Bigley horrified the
world. It sickened Iraq's top pathologist too, but he is getting used to
seeing severed heads.
"It was barbaric, but we see all kinds of things here in forensic
pathology and beheadings are on the rise. It is the biggest trend by
far. Iraq is totally out of control," Faik Bakr told Reuters at his
morgue in Baghdad.

Bigley, a 62-year-old engineer, was beheaded with a knife on Thursday
after his televised pleas for help riveted attention on foreign hostages
in Iraq, where several have been decapitated.
Masked Islamic militants and guerrillas seeking to drive U.S. and other
foreign troops out of Iraq may see themselves as warriors in a just
cause. But after seeing more and more severed heads arrive at his
morgue, Bakr has drawn other conclusions.

"They think they are heroes. But the only thing I can say is that they
are abnormal, they are inhumane," said Bakr.
The militants usually make their blindfolded victims kneel before them
as a statement is read justifying what is to come. The hostage is pushed
to the floor for the final indignity.
"If the victim does not resist at all it would take about two or three
minutes for them to cut the head off," said Bakr.
FROM HEART ATTACKS TO SEVERED HEADS
Many of the victims of Saddam Hussein were never brought to hospital.
In those long years of oppression, executions, wars and sanctions, the
deaths Bakr dealt with were usually the more mundane results of heart
attacks, disease and only the occasional shooting.
"I began my work 25 years ago. I saw maybe three beheadings (in the
past). It is a rare way of killing in Iraq," said Bakr. "But now we get
up to six beheading cases a month in our morgue alone."
Bakr, 54, has not dealt with the high-profile beheadings of foreigners
that have grabbed the headlines.
He quietly goes to work at a medical complex where he examines the
bodies of the many Iraqis who have been murdered after being kidnapped
by criminals on the street.
More than 300 shooting victims are delivered to his morgue every month,
compared to about 16 under Saddam's iron grip.
"We don't get to understand what happened or to investigate. We just see
the bodies and the heads and we tag them if we can identify them," said
Bakr.
Some bereaved families are left with no clue as the motive for a
killing. A pharmacist was recently beheaded after being kidnapped on his
way to work along with a colleague who was shot dead. No ransom was
demanded and no political cause apparent.
But when Bakr teaches medical students forensic pathology these days,
there are usually few doubts about the immediate physical cause of
death.
Victims have often been beheaded, shot dead or blown apart in a country
plagued by suicide bombings, kidnappings and crime.
"The lesson is very simple. Death is definitely increasing every day in
Iraq," said Bakr.
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Copyright © 2004 Reuters Limited.

[neno.tu]

Are you a reporter????

You have like two news today...

heheheheh

:P

[Randy]

Nah... just decided to post that interesting info from Reuters.

[backrowgw212]

If you wantr to know what i think (some ppl may not but ull get over that) i think the War in Iraq was a needed thing. If you want to know y ill tell u later

[cvrk3]

iraq will continue to be so in the near feature, with or without US!!

[neno.tu]

Don't really care about IRAQ... same to me...

I have enought problems here...


:P


BIG PROBLEMS

[broken]

A lot of work has to be done in Iraq to get it back to a decent and prosperous country. When something like what has happened to Iraq happens to a country, there are going to be problems. I think the main concern here is getting rid of the majority of the terrorists. To be fair, we will never totally dispose of all terrorists, it's impossible, but we can make their job a lot harder. Iraq could be a wonderful country, and I believe that one day it will be.

[backrowgw212]

President Bush made a really good choice to invade iraq. The world needed to be rid of Sadam Hussein. The only reason we didnt find weapons of mass destruction is because the stupid U.N waited a year to allow us to attack.

[Ashes]

That is such utter bullshit.

The reason we didn't find WMD is because they weren't there in the first place.

Even Bush has attested to this; stop being ignorant.

[tntcheats]

Yes, they were owned by Saddam in a different country I assume. It's ignorant to ignore soldiers getting sick from Xenon poisoning, I believe it is, and certain parts from large explosives being hidden under peoples gardens.

Not to mention Heussaine gassing 10,000 Kurds.