Iraq : 165 dead - and one from the neck upwards

In the last 4 days the known death toll in Baghdad is at least 165. The Los Angles Times reports U.S. personnel were investigating sites where corpses were recently found and the senior American military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, said scores of mutilated bodies found in the middle of the week appeared to be “from murder execution-style type activity.”

There is concern that the merciless, brutal killings, of tortured, blindfolded people have been committed by the 42,200 Shiite-dominated US trained government security forces in areas already secured by U.S. and Iraqi troops — inside jobs, in effect.

Caldwell is the fantasist in the NYT in August who was reported saying ....

“If we were willing to accept the high levels of casualties that occur in the city each month, then the Iraqi security forces could have continued handling the situation,”

...and then added ... as a further insult to the reader's intelligence...

“I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the sectarian violence.”

Just remember Abu Ghraib was handed over to these Iraqi security forces 2 weeks ago, which they celebrated 4 days later by a mass hanging of 27 people.