50 deaths reported across Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

50 deaths reported across Iraq
Ex-officials to face corruption charges
By Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | August 13, 2006

BAGHDAD-- Police found a dozen bodies trapped in a grate in the Tigris River and a roadside bomb killed two US soldiers on a foot patrol south of Baghdad yesterday, as nearly 50 violent deaths were reported across Iraq.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki banned a Kurdish extremist party from operating in Baghdad in a move seen largely as a gesture to Turkey, which had threatened to send troops across the border to destroy the group's bases in northern Iraq.

Also yesterday, a commission said nearly 40 top officials of the past two governments have been ordered to appear in court to answer allegations of corruption. They include former ministers of defense, labor, and electricity, the commission said.

The 12 bodies were found in Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad, at one of a series of metal grates fixed in the river to block debris, according to Mamoun al-Rubaie, with the Kut city morgue.

All were men between 35 and 45 years old and had been bound, blindfolded and shot in the head or chest, Rubaie said, and appeared to have been the victims of sectarian death squads that operate in the religiously mixed communities in and around Baghdad.
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