U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte met today with Iraq’s prime minister as the military announced the deaths of seven Americans and the tortured bodies of 56 men were found on the streets of Baghdad. The bodies were of men between 20 and 45 years old, and all were apparent victims of sectarian death squads, police said. All wore civilian clothes and had been bound at the wrists and ankles, police Lt. Mohammed Khayon said. He said the bodies showed signs of having been tortured, a common practice among Shi’ite death squads, which seize victims from private homes or from cars and buses traveling the capital’s dangerous streets. Full Story
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