Sepcial Report: Tension accelerates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi police patrols recovered 10 bodies riddled with bullets in different parts of Baghdad on Tuesday, a police source said.

    "The police patrols found 10 bodies in execution-style in several neighborhoods in Baghdad," captain Ahmed Abdullah, from Baghdad police, told Xinhua.

    Some of the bodies were showing signs of torture and with bullet holes in their heads and chests, Abdullah said. More execution-style bodies have been found in the capital in the past few days, which might be the result of sectarian violence across the country.

    A Sunni Arab leader complained earlier last week that the central morgue of Baghdad received more than 1,000 unidentified bodies in April alone, most of them were Sunnis.

    "More than 1,000 unidentified bodies have been admitted to Baghdad central morgue, most of them Sunnis, many were shot in the head with signs of torture," Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads the largest Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, told reporters. Following a bombing attack that destroyed a holy Shiite shrine in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra on Feb. 22, waves of sectarian strifes have been ravaging the country.

    Iraq is about to have a new government to be in place soon, as the incoming Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced Tuesday that his cabinet will be finalized by the end of this week. Enditem