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KITTY PILGRIM: Michael Ware reports from Baghdad on
the latest violence in Iraq -- Michael.
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kitty, with the end
of another weekend and the beginning of another
working week, the deaths continue to mount across
Iraq. Two police commandos were killed in the capital
today in a suicide bombing. Two civilians in a
separate mortar attack.
Thirty executed bodies found across the capital
today, many showing the signs of torture, bringing
the total in the last 48 hours to 90. A dozen U.S.
troops were killed over the weekend.
But most significantly was the outbreak of sectarian
violence in a town just north of Baghdad called
Balad. There, on Friday afternoon, 19 Shia laborers
were found with their heads cut off. The largely Shia
community responded the next day, killing at least 38
Sunnis. Iraqi and U.S. security forces eventually
moved into the town and took control, where order has
at least temporarily been restored.
This does not reflect well for the future. This is
potentially the face of the sectarian violence to
come, particularly as U.S. forces pull back further
and further and hand over to what is the shaky Iraqi
security forces -- Kitty.
PILGRIM: Michael Ware reporting from
Baghdad.