Gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives, police said Saturday.That's it. No village name. Nothing. Coulda been on Mars. Prolly was, on second thought. The rest is a "roundup"... this is AP, after all. Massive padding is always required for news farts where they have no substantiating details but want to "scoop" and fan the flames. It's a tradition.
The capital remained under a 24-hour curfew two days after suspected Sunni insurgents killed 215 people in Baghdad's main Shiite district with a combination of bombs and mortars. Another 87 people were killed or found dead in sectarian violence across Iraq Friday.
In Diyala province, a hotbed of Iraq's Sunni-Arab insurgency, gunmen raided two Shiite homes Friday night. The attack targeted members of the al-Sawed Shiite tribe in the village of Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, according to a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his own security, as officials often do in the increasingly volatile province.