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56 Bodies Found + 13 Killed

Good afternoon,

The violence persisted Monday, with at least 13 people killed in attacks nationwide. The victims included Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi, a 36-year-old Sunni news editor with the private, independent Dijlah radio station who was gunned down in his car on his way to work.

Al-Dulaimi's slaying raised to at least 93 the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the Iraq war began, according the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders.

Police also found 56 bodies in Baghdad and the province of Diyala, northeast of the capital. Forty-eight of those were handcuffed, blindfolded and shot before they were dumped in two different areas of the capital _ 18 on the Sunni-dominated western bank of the Tigris River and 30 on the eastern side, which is largely Shiite.

Have a nice afternoon.

posted by Wink @ 3:26 PM