MORE ON “DECAPIGATE:” Greyhawk is in Iraq, and emails that he can’t reach his site. So he sends these thoughts, which I assume will appear on The Mudville Gazette at some later point:

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I’m shocked – shocked I tell you, to read this. I haven’t heard of such a thing since the last time the news reported a bogus headless bodies story.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Separate groups of gunmen entered two primary schools in Baghdad on Wednesday and beheaded two teachers in front of their students…

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“We sent a crew and they spoke with witnesses in front of the school, and they say nothing happened. We spoke to the guard at the school who says ‘I was here from early morning until they (the kids) left, and nothing happened,” said a representative of one of the agencies.

“We went to both schools and no one confirmed it. We even went to the local police station and they denied it happen. This thing you can’t hide. The kids saw nothing,”

Or the time before that…

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 (NY Times) — The bodies of 30 beheaded men were found on a main highway near Baquba this evening, providing more evidence that the death squads in Iraq are becoming out of control.

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Q: About, on the news that we heard this week of a number of headless bodies being found along a road in Baghdad. I was wondering what more you could tell us about that, what you know about the victims, and who the perpetrators were?

GEN. THURMAN: Okay. I did understand that question, and what I would tell you — we have not confirmed that report. We went to multiple sites to look for the 32 headless bodies that was reported to our headquarters, and we did not find anything; nor did any of the local citizens that were in these areas could verify that anybody had ever been in there. So I look at that report as completely false right now.

Thanks, Greyhawk.