Iraqi police found eight bodies in Baghdad and near a town in northern Iraq's Salahudin Province, four of them identified as militants affiliated to al-Qaida network in Iraq, police said.
"Our patrols picked up four bodies, believed they are belonging to al-Qaida militants, from an area near the town of Duluiyah, 90km north of Baghdad on Saturday," a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Rifts have emerged between the al-Qaida and Sunni tribes, the backbone of insurgency against the U.S. troops, due to al-Qaida's adherence to a hardline of Sunni Islamism and indiscriminate killings of civilians.
Also on Saturday, police patrols collected four unidentified bodies from different parts of the capital during the past 24 hours, police official said.
The bodies were handcuffed, blindfolded and showing signs of torture with bullet holes on their bodies, he said.
The daily gruesome finding of corpses continued across Iraq despite more than seven months into U.S. and Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in the war-torn country.
Source: Xinhua
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