BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- "There are the bloodstains on the wall, and here it is dried on the floor," Abu Muhanad said as he walked through a torture chamber in a Baghdad mosque where more than two dozen bodies have been found. Two women clutch photographs of loved ones believed killed by the Mehdi Army. "And here, a woman's shoes. She was a victim of the militia. We found her corpse in the grave." Chunks of hair waft lazily across the floor in the hot Baghdad breeze. "This was the torture room," said Muhanad, the leader of a U.S.-backed armed group that now controls the mosque.
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Iraqi authorities discover 27 bodies at mosque and find torture room
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"Here is a chain we found tied to an old man's body," official says
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Dad of 25-year-old: "His hands, legs were amputated and his head was decapitated"
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Residents say militia has left mosque, but still intimidates them
Some of the victims were accused of being spies for @placeholder forces.