11.   At the tent city in Mina, pilgrims enjoyed a feast of freshly slaughtered sheep and other animals.

12.   But British cows are thought to have gotten the illness, known as BSE, by eating tissue from slaughtered sheep that was used to enrich cattle feed.

13.   On Monday, Britain began burying thousands of slaughtered sheep in a pit on a disused airfield in Cumbria, the northwestern English county worst hit by the outbreak.

14.   Seeking to head off another food scare, Britain on Wednesday announced new slaughterhouse rules to stop the heads of slaughtered sheep and goats entering the human food chain.

15.   Tests of four slaughtered sheep found evidence of a version of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the scientific name for the always-fatal mad cow disease, officials said.

16.   The alleyways and streets stained with the blood of slaughtered sheep throughout working-class districts of Baghdad bear witness to an economic recovery that has ruined business for smugglers.