pinions of buddy don: daily multiplyer

i wonted to practiss usin that multiplyer i gut frum juan cole n writ about yesterdy. heres one of the top stories of the day gittin the treatment.

Gunmen Abduct 50 in Baghdad; 18 Bodies Found in Minibus:

BAGHDAD, March 8 -- Gunmen wearing what appeared to be the uniforms of Iraqi Interior Ministry commandos stormed a private security company in the capital Wednesday afternoon and kidnapped as many as 50 employees, a ministry official said. In an atmosphere of spiraling lawlessness, other violence killed at least 47 people across the country between Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

In the deadliest incident, the bodies of 18 men, all bound at the wrists and blindfolded, were found piled in an abandoned minibus late Tuesday by a U.S. military patrol in Mansour, a mixed neighborhood of Shiite and Sunni Arabs in western Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement Wednesday.

Baghdad police said that 15 of the victims, including the driver, had been strangled and that three had been shot in the back of the head.

The killings and mass kidnapping were new illustrations of deteriorating security in many parts of Iraq, particularly the capital. Multiple slayings, often of people from the same family or religious sect discovered bound and gagged, have become commonplace.

now lets use the multiplyer to see whut this wood look lack ifn it happend here in amurka. the multiplyer is 11.34, witch thats how minny amurkins thay is fer each iraqi. heres the result, translated to amurkin:

Gunmen Abduct 567 in Washington; 204 Bodies Found in 11 Minibuses:

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Gunmen wearing what appeared to be the uniforms of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ("BATF") stormed a private security company in the capital Wednesday afternoon and kidnapped as many as 567 employees, an administration official said. In an atmosphere of spiraling lawlessness, other violence killed at least 533 people across the country between Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

In the deadliest incident, the bodies of 204 men, all bound at the wrists and blindfolded, were found piled in 11 abandoned minibuses late Tuesday by a U.S. military patrol in Manassas, a mixed neighborhood of Protestants and Catholics west of Washington, D.C., the U.S. military said in a statement Wednesday.

DC police said that 170 of the victims, including the driver, had been strangled and that thirty-four had been shot in the back of the head.

The killings and mass kidnapping were new illustrations of deteriorating security in many parts of the U.S., particularly the capital. Multiple slayings, often of people from the same family or religious denomination discovered bound and gagged, have become commonplace.

corse, them numbers mite not be eggzackly correck, ifn ye bleeve whuts writ in this story name of Official Says Shiite Party Suppressed Body Count:

BAGHDAD, March 8 -- Days after the bombing of a Shiite shrine unleashed a wave of retaliatory killings of Sunnis, the leading Shiite party in Iraq's governing coalition directed the Health Ministry to stop tabulating execution-style shootings, according to a ministry official familiar with the recording of deaths.

The official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because he feared for his safety, said a representative of the Shiite party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, ordered that government hospitals and morgues catalogue deaths caused by bombings or clashes with insurgents, but not by execution-style shootings.

A statement this week by the U.N. human rights department in Baghdad appeared to support the account of the Health Ministry official. The agency said it had received information about Baghdad's main morgue -- where victims of fatal shootings are taken -- that indicated "the current acting director is under pressure by the Interior Ministry in order not to reveal such information and to minimize the number of casualties."

The U.N. office said it had not confirmed the information about the morgue and had been unable so far to obtain an accounting of the toll from Iraqi authorities.