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HERE is another great article on the subject

Jun 28, 6:42 AM (ET)

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
(AP) – Twenty beheaded bodies were discovered Thursday on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad, while a parked car bomb killed another 20 people in one of the capital’s busy outdoor bus stations, police said.

The beheaded remains were found in the Sunni Muslim village of Um al-Abeed, near the city of Salman Pak, which lies 14 miles southeast of Baghdad.

The bodies – all men aged 20 to 40 years old – had their hands and legs bound, and some of the heads were found next to the bodies, two officers said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

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BAGHDAD, June 30 (Reuters) – Media reports attributed to Iraqi police of 20 decapitated bodies found south of Baghdad this week were untrue and may have been planted by insurgents to provoke revenge attacks, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

“Coalition and Iraqi officials began investigating to determine if the reports were true. Ultimately it was concluded the reports were false,” the military said in a statement.

Local police, speaking off the record, said on Thursday that the bodies had been found dumped on the banks of the Tigris River near Salman Pak, about 30 km (19 miles) south of Baghdad.

But the Iraqi Interior Ministry later said that a team sent to the location with U.S. forces had found nothing.

“(Insurgents) are known for purposefully providing false information to the media to incite violence and revenge killings, and they may well have been the source of this misinformation,” the military said.

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Give me a break. The MSM will believe any bad news they get from anonymous sources. Makes it hard to understand who’s side they are on – but we’ve really known that for some time.

Click here for a good dissection of of this series of events from a respected blog. (leave it to bloggers to discover -

“For the second time in less than year, the Associated Press seems to have run a story of a horrific massacre involving 20 or more people, using police officers not assigned to the area as their primary sources. For the second time in less than a year, it appears that there is no physical evidence that so much as a single person has died.”

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