22 people died today in Iraq. Thomas Wagner reports for AP:
Gunmen shot and killed a television comedian Monday who was famous for mocking everyone from the Iraqi government to U.S. forces to Shiite militias to Sunni insurgents. Walid Hassan’s slaying came as the Iraqi death toll rose to more than 1,300 for the first 20 days of November …The bodies of 26 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured also were found on the streets of the capital, in Dujail to the north of Baghdad and in the Tigris River in southern Iraq