Shootings, Bombings and Hangings Claim Iraqi Lives

NPR | By Anne Garrels

Published March 8, 2006 at 8:32 AM EST

An American patrol found 18 bodies -- all males -- in an abandoned minibus Tuesday night on a road between two notorious west Baghdad neighborhoods. The bodies of at least 23 people have been found dumped throughout Baghdad in the last day.

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