The bullet-riddled bodies of 14 Sunni Arab men purportedly seized by police a week ago were found dumped in Baghdad in what appeared to be the latest bout of sectarian violence in the capital, a top Sunni group said Saturday. The Association of Muslim Scholars said Interior Ministry forces detained the men a week ago while they were praying at the Sunni Arab Al-Aqsa Mosque in Shula, northwestern Baghdad, and their bodies were found by relatives late Friday in the same area. The bodies were taken to a hospital morgue to be collected by their families, the association said in a statement. Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal, the ministry's head of intelligence, said the 14 bodies had all been shot multiple times. He could not confirm that government forces had detained them. "We are investigating the residents reports that these men were arrested in raids in that area but we have nothing so far," Kamal told The Associated Press.
