Originally Posted by Lord Nelson

Yep, things are going fucking GREAT in Iraq

*In the most gruesome development, insurgents manning makeshift checkpoints killed about 30 people execution-style and dumped their bodies in farmland north of Baghdad, police said. The bodies of 11 others were found in the area Tuesday.

*More than a dozen other Iraqis died Wednesday in attacks linked to the insurgency.

*In the boldest attack, gunmen opened fire on a convoy of the mobile telephone company Iraqna, killing six security guards and three drivers in the Nafaq al-Shurta district of western Baghdad.

Naguib Sawiris, chairman of the Egyptian communications firm that controls Iraqna, said two engineers from Kenya were seized by the attackers.

*The two American civilians were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern city of Basra. They worked for the Texas-based security company DynCorp and were training Iraqi police. A third American was seriously wounded in the attack, the U.S. Embassy said.

An Associated Press photographer at the scene said two four-wheel-drive vehicles were targeted. The area was surrounded by heavily armed British forces, whose main base in Iraq is in Basra.

In other violence:

_Two policemen were killed and five were wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a police patrol near the Baghdad home of Shiite politician Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

_The bodies of five men, all wearing civilian clothes with bullet wounds to the head, were found floating in the Qaid River near Swera, 25 miles south of Baghdad, said Kut Hospital morgue employee Hadi al-Itabi.

_Three Iraqi police and an Iraqi civilian were killed when a roadside bomb struck a patrol in Saadiya, 80 miles north of Baghdad. Four police officers were wounded.

_The bodies of three men, including a Sunni Arab leader related to Iraq's defense minister, were found Wednesday with gunshot wounds to the head in a Baghdad apartment, police said.