Iraq Situation Deteriorating Faster than Rush Limbaugh's Oxycontin Supply

From AFP via Yahoo:

A Lebanese and two Iraqi employees of a foreign company meanwhile became the latest victims among foreigners working in Iraq and locals employed by foreign firms who have been prime targets.

Insurgents cut the throats of the three employees of a telecommunications firm kidnapped Thursday on a road near Fallujah, a Lebanese diplomat said.

"Hussein Olayyan, from south Lebanon, and two Iraqis working for a telecommunications company disappeared Thursday in the area around Fallujah," said charge d'affaires Hassan Hijazi.

On the other hand, seven Turkish construction workers kidnapped a couple of days ago around the same area were released and were on their way home, the Turkish embassy in Baghdad said.

The Washington Post reported that US Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the top US military commander in Iraq, had approved letting senior officials at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison use high-pressure tactics to extract information from detainees.

They included "military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished," the Post said, citing US government documents.