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Iraqi police find 20 beheaded bodies near Baghdad
28 Jun 2007 08:22:50 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, June 28 (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities found the bodies of 20 beheaded men dumped on the banks of the river Tigris in the town of Salman Pak, just south of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.

Locals spotted the bodies and informed the police who have yet to identify the victims. Beheadings are a common tactic usually used by radical Sunni groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq, but finding such large numbers of victims in one group are rare.
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Sunni garage workers transfer furniture owned by a Shi'ite family to a truck bound for Ramadi at "Friends Garage" in Baghdad May 30, 2007. Truck drivers have created "Friends Garage", an informal Baghdad transit point where passengers are swapped depending on their sect, as a point of exchange for passengers fleeing the sectarian tension, and for goods imported from Syria and Jordan through Sunni Anbar province but destined for Baghdad's Shi'ite wholesale markets. To match feature IRAQ/GARAGE REUTERSMahmoud Raouf Mahmoud (IRAQ)



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