Iraq: MP assassinated, dozens of bodies found

Insurgents assassinated a Kurdish member of parliament and police found 20 bodies shot to death and dumped in the Tigris River 50 miles north of the capital, where there was no major violence for the first time in five days.

Faris Nasir Hussein, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, was killed yesterday along with his brother and their driver in an ambush 50 miles north of Baghdad. A second Kurdish lawmaker, Haidar Shanoun, was wounded in the attack near the town of Dujail.