Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dozens-of-tortured-bodies-found-across-baghdad Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Violence in Iraq continued, as the bodies of some sixty gunshot victims were discovered in Baghdad, nearly forty Iraqis were killed by bomb and mortar attacks and the U.S. military announced the deaths of two more American soldiers. A reporter in Baghdad provides an update on the situation in Iraq. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: Ed Wong, welcome.When did you realize that this has been a particularly bloody day in Baghdad? EDWARD WONG, The New York Times: Well, we got some reports earlier today from the Interior Ministry, saying that as many as 60, maybe more, bodies were found, both on the east side of Baghdad and the west side, between yesterday and today.Now, it has — it's been a fairly long time since we have gotten a death toll like that of execution-style killings. And the interesting thing about this is that our reports indicate that 45 of those bodies were found on the west bank. And the American military and the Iraqi security forces for the last several weeks have been trying an operation on the west bank of the Tigris River here in Baghdad to try and secure some of the troubled neighborhoods.The generals tell me that they have pushed that operation through most of the troubled neighborhoods. And, yet, we're still seeing lots of bodies popping up in the last day or so on that side of the city. RAY SUAREZ: When you say troubled neighborhoods — and ones particularly targeted by Iraqi and American military — what kind of neighborhoods are they? Who lives there? EDWARD WONG: Well, some of them are mixed areas. Some of them are among the most violent places in Baghdad. One neighborhood sort of on the southern edge of Baghdad that they pushed through is Dora. The murder rate there has dropped since the Americans and the Iraqi security forces have gone in there.But we're hearing from residents there that they're still very wary of the Iraqi police, and they're not looking forward to the day when the Americans start leaving the neighborhood, as the Americans generally will, because there simply aren't enough American troops here to do the same effort throughout all the neighborhoods, and still keep them in place.