According to The Associated Press, an Iraqi official said the men appeared to have been killed recently.

Maj. Felah Al-Mohammedawi of Iraq's Interior Ministry told the AP most of the men had been blindfolded and their hands were tied with rope or plastic.

Police have not identified the men.

The bodies were discovered in Jassan, a town in Wasit province near Iran.

U.S. official: Senior al-Zarqawi aide killed

Al Qaeda in Iraq's No. 2 operative was killed during a raid by coalition and Iraqi forces, a U.S. Defense Department official said Tuesday.

Abu Azzam, a "significant" figure in the al Qaeda network in Iraq, was slain early Sunday in Baghdad during a joint operation, a military official spokesman in Iraq said. (Full story)

Azzam had a personal relationship with terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and held senior positions in the al Qaeda in Iraq network in Baghdad and Falluja, he said.

"This creates a void for al Qaeda in Iraq, in their leadership, for a while," the spokesman said.

Gen. Richard Myers, outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, "it will have some effect."

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