Bodies of 22 Slaying Victims - Some Shot, Some Beheaded - Found in Iraq

From the LA Times (oh yes, it's getting better in Iraq each and every day, just ask the president):

BAGHDAD — Twenty-two bodies were discovered Monday in the southeast Baghdad neighborhood of Um Maalif, including one identified as that of a police colonel from the southern city of Karbala, a hospital official said.

All had been shot and most were believed to be Shiite Muslims. Two were beheaded.

The night before the bodies were discovered, men dressed in Iraqi national guard uniforms raided the neighborhood, a police official said today.

When a local resident tried to stop the men, he was shot, the official said.

The raiders then led away several other residents, including two members of the Iraqi security forces assigned to guard electric plants. The men are believed to be among the dead discovered Monday.