The death toll from violence sparked by the bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra rose to at least 78 today, heightening fears that Iraq is sliding towards civil war.

Nearly 50 people were pulled from buses and shot dead in the Nahrawan area, south-east of Baghdad. Their bodies were later found behind a brick factory.

Sixteen people were killed, including eight civilians, and 21 injured when a bomb aimed at an army foot patrol exploded in a busy market in Baquba, north-east of Baghdad.

Iraqi police also reported finding some 50 bodies - many with bound hands - at sites around Baghdad, but it was not immediately clear if this figure included the 40 recovered in Nahrawan.

In Basra, which is predominantly Shia, men dressed in police uniform took 11 Sunni prisoners from a prison. They were later found dead at various sites in the of the city. Officials put the overall death toll in Basra at 25. [Source]

It is when Iraqis are nothing but roughly counted dead bodies that make the world’s daily news while they have guts to call it “liberation” and ask that Iraqis unite!! unit? let them survive first.

And they dare prosecute Saddam for his crimes!

God help Iraqis