41 killed in spate of deadly attacks in Iraq:
The deadliest incident occurred in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh late Saturday night when 20 soldiers were killed by dozens of gunmen who attacked their base in Ayn al-Jahash area, Xinhua quoted a provincial police source as saying. Ref. Source 8
Mass prisoner deaths in Iraq point to police executions:
It was supposed to be a routine job, police say. Move 69 prisoners from an outlying town to a jail in southern Baghdad. But before they arrived at their destination, every single prisoner had been killed. Ref. Source 3