Mortars explode in Baghdad; 27 bodies found in capital

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Nine people were wounded Wednesday when several mortars exploded in northern Baghdad's Shula district, an interior ministry official told CNN.

The official also reported that 27 bullet-riddled bodies, most showing signs of torture, were found across Baghdad on Wednesday. (Posted 12:35 p.m.)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/03/wednesday/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[maddezmom]

1. FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 3

Jan 3 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1330 GMT on Wednesday:

* denotes a new or updated item.

* YATHRIB - Gunmen stormed a house and killed six members of a Shi'ite family on Tuesday in the mainly Sunni town of Yathrib, near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* HILLA - Gunmen killed two former Baath party officials near the town of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Central Criminal Court of Iraq convicted 48 security detainees between Dec. 8 to 28, for various crimes including murder, kidnapping and illegal possession of weapons, the U.S. military said. The court sentenced a Syrian, a Saudi and a Sudanese man to death in connection with "terrorist acts".

BAGHDAD - A car bomb near an intersection wounded one person in Mansour district in west-central Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - The corpse of a man was found shot dead and tortured in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03128274.htm

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Mortars are exploding? Why? Are they defective?

[saigon68]

3. "BRING EM ON" shouted the (Drunken) AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[teryang]

4. 1200 murdered Iraqis for December 2006

...per CNN. I think that would be on the low side.