DAILY WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, June 29, 2006

Today in Iraq

Unidentified armed men killed Thursday a police officer in west Baghdad 24 hours after his kidnap. The body of Fox News photographer Osama Qadir was found Thursday, four days after being kidnapped in Al-Shaab district east of Baghdad. Reporters and photographers in the media gathering at Palestine Hotel said that Qadir's family told them of his death after being shoot in the head and chest. Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a policeman in Karbala. Attackers firing from a car shot to death a 34-year-old man working in a construction equipment shop in Karbala. Five bodies, including one of a woman and a child, were found in Karbala. Gunmen killed a former Baath Party and his wife as they were driving in the centre of Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad. Four corpses were recovered from Kut. Five bodies, including two of women, were found in Hilla. Two of them were recovered from the Euphrates river. The bodies of seven men were found in the Tigris River south of Baghdad. All had gunshot wounds and showed signs of torture. The bodies of two men with gunshot wounds, and showing signs of torture, were found beside the river Euphrates in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad...

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