BAGHDAD, Sept. 13--Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in a series of bloody incidents throughout the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said.
At least 62 unidentified bullet-riddled corpses--all bearing signs of torture--have been found throughout the city since Tuesday night, said Brig. Gen. Abdullah Mahmood of the Interior Ministry.
Some of the bodies had been beheaded. Attacks on police patrols killed an additional 27 people Wednesday morning, officials said.
The bloodiest scene unfolded at 9 a.m., when a car bomb exploded near an indoor stadium in Baghdad, killing 12 traffic policemen and wounded 13 others, authorities said. When a crowd gathered to help the wounded, another bomb detonated, killing seven civilians and wounding 47 others.
Three mortars fell on a police station in the Mashtal district of eastern Baghdad, killing five policemen and wounding 12 others. Two mortars fell also landed at a security forces recruiting center near the al-Muthana airfield in central Baghdad, killing two of the center's guards and wounding seven others, the Interior Ministry said.
The U.S. military Wednesday also announced the deaths of two soldiers, although their names were not released. One was killed Tuesday in Baghdad after a bomb struck his vehicle; the other died Monday after combat in Anbar province, a volatile stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgency.
The civil war in Iraq just continues on.
And just to remind you of President Bush's speech last September 11th:
President Bush: I am often asked why we're in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The answer is that the regime of Saddam Hussein was a clear threat.
My administration, the Congress and the United Nations saw the threat.
And, after 9/11, Saddam's regime posed a risk that the world could not afford to take.
The world is safer because Saddam Hussein is no longer in power.
Do you really feel safe now?
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