BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bodies of more than 50 people have been recovered from the Tigris River and have been identified, President Jalal Talabani said We
April 19, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bodies of more than 50 people have been recovered from the Tigris River and have been identified, President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday. He said the bodies were believed to have been those of hostages seized in a region south of Baghdad earlier this month. In a separate discovery, another 19 Iraqis were shot to death and left lined up against a bloodstained wall in a soccer stadium in the town of Haditha, about 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, an Iraqi reporter and residents said...read on

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