Record number of bodies turns up in Baghdad

[Botany]

I guess the Iraqis have run out of "sweets & rose petals" to throw. I wonder how
the Crawford Ranch Xmas is going?


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq21dec21,1,3722046.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

The toll, 76, is the highest yet for a 24-hour period. Two U.S. soldiers are killed in roadside bombings.

BAGHDAD — The bodies of 76 unidentified people were recovered Wednesday in Baghdad, police said, the highest 24-hour toll for the anonymous slayings that have become a grim part of life in the capital.

All of the victims were men between the ages of 20 and 50. Although they died violently, all shot with automatic weapons, the men were not slain execution-style — no handcuffs or blindfolds, morgue staff members said. Only a few showed signs of torture.

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There were victims of drive-by shootings, assassinations and bombings, police said. The corpses included that of a Yarmouk Hospital morgue worker who usually receives the dead. In all, an additional 26 Iraqis were killed around the country, most of them in Baghdad.

Two U.S. troops were killed in separate roadside bombings. One died while investigating an explosion with a combat patrol southwest of the capital, the military said. A second soldier died after an explosion near his vehicle during a road-clearing mission in southern Baghdad. Six soldiers were wounded in the blasts.

[NNN0LHI]

1. We are supposed to go shopping n/t

[marmar]

2. Exactly....It's commercial Christmas, we can't trouble our "beautiful minds" .....

with all that Iraq death stuff. :(