Iraq: Two dead as US releases 50 detainees

Published February 5th, 2006 - 12:08 GMT

Iraqi police Sunday located the bodies of two Shiite men who had been shot dead and dumped north of Baghdad, the AP reported. The bodies were found on the highway linking Baghdad's northern suburb of Shula to Taji, a town 12 miles north of the Iraqi capital.

 

Meanwhile, U.S. forces are to free about 50 Iraqi detainees Sunday but no women are among them, the military said. The freeing of women is a demand by the kidnappers of US journalist Jill Carroll.


According to the AP, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson stated the Iraqis are being freed as part of a routine review of their cases.

 

 

 

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