Twenty beheaded bodies were discovered Thursday on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad, while a parked car bomb killed another 20 people in one of the capital's busy outdoor bus stations, police said.

By Sabrina Tavernise Mona Mahmoud contributed reporting for this article from Baghdad and Hosham A. Hussein from Salman Pak. * When Shiite forces took over this Sunni town, they spread out and clamped down. Checkpoints sprung up. People suspected of being insurgents were driven out.

Text of report by Isam Fahim in Baghdad entitled "Iraqi official to Al-Ra'y al-Amm: Maj-Gen Muhammad Mansurah official in charge of Syrian relations with Iraqi tribes" published by Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Ra'y al-Amm website on 13 August A high-ranking Iraqi security source has revealed to Al-Ra'y Al- Amm that Iran "interferes in Iraq to a large extent and greatly contributes to prolonging the cycle of violence in the country.