03-14-2006, 09:03 PM
<b>Iraqis Find 85 Bodies in 24-Hour Period </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->BAGHDAD, Iraq - Police in the past 24 hours have found the bodies of at least 85 people killed by execution-style shootings -- a gruesome wave of apparent sectarian reprisal slayings, officials said Tuesday. The dead included at least 27 bodies stacked in a mass grave in an eastern Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad. The bloodshed -- the second wave of mass killings in Iraq since bombers destroyed an important Shiite shrine last month -- followed weekend attacks in a teeming Shiite slum in which 58 people died and more than 200 were wounded.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->