Not good news. Two Americans and a Briton have been kidnapped from an upscale neighborhood in Baghdad.

The three, all employees of Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman, an Interior Ministry official.

Yesterday, three decapitated bodies were located by a roadside near Dijiel which is north of Baghdad. Authorities believe the bodies are those of Iraqis who have been killed but have not released their identities.

The bodies were found Wednesday in nylon bags, the heads in bags alongside them, said Abdul-Rahman said. They were all men with tattoos, including one with the letter 'H' on his arm, but no documents were found on them, he said.

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