IRAQ. DEATH SQUAD PROBE

Iraq’s Interior Ministry launched an investigation into claims that a police death squad had been operating in the country.
The probe was launched as police found the bodies of 10 more men who had been shot execution-style and dumped in three different areas of Baghdad's predominantly Shi'ite suburb of Shula. Hussein Kamal, Iraq's deputy interior minister in charge of domestic intelligence, said the probe was launched after the US claimed it had detained 22 men wearing police uniforms who were about to kill a Sunni Arab man.
The bodies of Sunni Arabs, bound and gagged and shot in the head, had been turning up in Baghdad for months, fuelling allegations of sectarian killings, which Sunni Arab leaders said were often carried out by Shi'ites in army or police uniforms.