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30 bodies found in Baghdad house
Baghdad bodies
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Iraqis examine bags with human remains found in a mass grave in southern Baghdad's mostly Sunni Dora neighborhood.
Most of the victims were apparently Shiite. They were left in an area until recently controlled by militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq.
By Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 18, 2007
BAGHDAD -- A least 30 bodies were discovered Saturday in an unfinished west Baghdad house as police and citizens groups probed neighborhoods that they said until recently were under the control of militants with the group Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Iraqi police described the site in the heavily Sunni Muslim Hur Rijab section of the Dora neighborhood as a grisly scene, with decomposed bodies wrapped in black plastic.

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The dead, some not bearing identification, appeared to be mainly Shiite Muslims. They were taken in numbered bags to the Kadhimain mosque in a Shiite section of Dora, police said.

The discovery was made during a joint operation by police and members of the Awakening Council of Sunnis, who have turned against the militant group and are cooperating with authorities. A source for the Interior Ministry said police were searching for bombs when they were drawn to the deserted house by a foul odor.

On Nov. 3, a mass grave containing at least 22 bodies, also believed to be those of victims of sectarian killings, was discovered by joint Iraqi-U.S. forces in a Sunni area near Tharthar Lake, northwest of Baghdad.

In August, police found about 60 bodies buried on the northwestern outskirts of Baqubah the Diyala province. Authorities believe they, like others found in mass graves, were victims of Saddam Hussein's government more than a decade ago.

Some other mass graves described during the trial that led to Hussein's execution have not been unearthed.

Elsewhere Saturday, a reporter for the independent TV station Baghdadiya was reported kidnapped in the capital.

The station's manager, who asked not to be named, said that Muntathar Zaidi, who disappeared Friday, presented balanced news with a focus on national unity and humanitarian subjects.

He said Zaidi's brother reached his cellphone and was told by the person who answered to forget about him. There has been no further contact with the abductors, he said.

The U.S. military reported Saturday that its forces killed six insurgents in operations north of Samarra and another in a raid north of Baghdad in the Rashidiya area.

Four unidentified homicide victims were found in the capital Saturday, the Ministry of Interior said.

A fuel depot in Latifiya, south of Baghdad, was ablaze Saturday morning after a Friday night mortar attack, police said.

In the south, an official for the Sunni Waqf endowment said prominent Sunnis had escaped two bombings Saturday, one injuring three children at the home of an Iraqi Islamic party member and the other at the home of a city council member. Also, a Sunni glass merchant was killed by gunmen who shot into his car, he said.

doug.smith@latimes.com

Times staff writers Wail Alhafith, Saif Rasheed and Usama Redha and a special correspondent in Baghdad contributed to this report.