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06-11-2010, 04:47 PM
Last Updated: Friday, June 11th / 2010, 12:45 GMT




Death squads are hunting million stray dogs in the streets of Baghdad


http://wscdn.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2010/06/11/100611123630_dogs226.jpg Stray dogs spread due to insecurity and the proliferation of garbage piles


A new kind of death squads roam the streets of Baghdad, killers with guns, fishing, and meat potion.
These teams designed around one million stray dogs in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after leading the violence that gripped the city since the Iraqi invasion in 2003 to complete paralysis of public services.
With the improved security situation over the past two years, the authorities sought to rejuvenate the campaign back to the era of Saddam Hussein, the killing of stray dogs.
Says Mohammed, director of the ornaments of Veterinary Medicine in Baghdad: "can be regarded as the biggest campaign of the execution of dogs."
The jewelry that the campaign against stray dogs Baghdad have so far managed to kill 42 A dog, since it began two months ago, have been killed more than half of poison.

In the Shula district of northwestern Baghdad, bringing together children with sticks by paying the dogs dead amid the trash. And loaded the bodies of dogs on a tractor and dumped in landfill dig in Baghdad.
Poor public services

Culling stray dogs are a routine operation at night, under Saddam, but the rapid deterioration of security after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, beyond the difference Veterinary off the streets.
And cast ornaments also blamed on the accumulation of massive amounts of garbage in the capital with the spread of violence and injury of public services to a standstill.
The authorities have formed 20 teams each consisting of two snipers, and two veterinarians, usually move in police patrols during the day.
The funding of this campaign, 35 million Iraqi dinars (about 30 thousand dollars) monitoring of the Baghdad Provincial Council and the mayor's office.
Karima says Moses, Chairman of the Department of Health and the Environment of the Baghdad Provincial Council, said that there were between one million and a quarter to half a million stray dogs in the streets of Baghdad, a city of 7 million citizens.
She adds that these dogs, "the movement of many diseases to humans, so is the elimination of service to citizens."
The ornaments that they expected the figure has been reduced significantly to the number able to control it within a year.
It defends its own execution of dogs as the only option available, given the vast number of dogs in the capital

It is an indictment of the system and much is to change. But I still find it sad.