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29 killed in new wave of Iraq bloodshed

14 bodies found in garbage dump

AFP, AP, Baghdad/ Kut
A car bomb ripped through a busy market south of Baghdad and another smashed into a minibbus packed with policemen north of the capital yesterday, killing a total of 29 people and wounding more than 40.
The latest bloodletting came as Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari attempted to put the final touches to his cabinet line-up, three months after general elections and more than a week after unveiling a partial government list.
"A car bomb with a suicide driver exploded at around 3 pm (1100 GMT) in the Mokhadar market, in the centre of Suwayrah, killing 17 and wounding 40," police Captain Namir Ali told AFP. The blast blew market stalls to pieces, as panic reined amid the carnage and medics tried to treat the most urgent cases next to the mangled wreckage of several vehicles.
The city lies in a lawless area where Sunni Arab militant groups have carried out scores of attacks against security forces and imposed their authority on civilian residents.
Some 60 bodies were fished out of the Tigris River near Suwayrah last month. President Jalal Talabani said they were those of Shias sized in a mass hostage-taking by Sunni militants in the nearby town of Madain.
Earlier Friday, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a minibus carrying policemen near ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, killing eight policemen and four civilians, including a child, a medic told AFP.
More than 300 people have already died this month in at least 30 car bombings and other attacks by Sunni insurgents.
Iraqi police said they found 14 bodies, blindfolded and hands bound, executed with a bullet to the back of the head, in northeastern Baghdad.
Residents had told them that a bulldozer was being used to bury bodies in a vacant lot in the Kisra wa Atash district.
Scavengers sifting through garbage for scrap metal and other items to sell stumbled across the bodies at the dump in Kasra Waatash, on the northeastern edge of Baghdad, police and soldiers said.
There were conflicting accounts of how many bodies were found. Bassim al-Maslokhi, a soldier who was guarding the area during the recovery, counted 14; Kadhim al-Itabi, a local police chief, put the number at 14.
"When police arrived on the scene, the driver of the bulldozer ran away. We found two bodies on the spot and 12 more when we dug up the area," an interior ministry official said.
The official said that the neighbourhood lies on the edge of Sadr City, the impoverished two-million-strong base of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, controlled by his Mehdi Army militia.
The incidents in Suwayrah and near Sadr City fueled fears of sectarian violence between the ousted Sunni elite and Iraq's newly empowered Shia majority.
In the Shia heartland, five people were wounded when clashes broke out between police and worshippers leaving prayers in the central shrine town of Kufa after a fiery sermon by Sadr.
"If you leave us in peace, we will leave you in peace. You should be aware of the fact that the Mehdi Army is still alive and has its finger on the trigger," said the sermon read by another cleric, in reference to Sadr's militia.
The mercurial leader had officially pledged to disarm and join the political arena following months of intense fighting with US troops last year, but Sadr has kept his options open since then and his militia remains an organised force.
The Shia alliance that won the January 30 elections holds a majority in parliament and was to meet later Friday with representatives of the Sunni minority in a bid to fill the remaining posts in the government line-up.
Several cabinet posts, including the key oil and defence portfolios, were left vacant when the new government was initially introduced last week because of last-minute bickering between the factions, politicians said.
Shia MP Ali Dabbagh said agreement had been reached among the Shia coalition on naming one of its own, Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, as oil minister.
A spokesman for Jaafari's Dawa party, Jawad Talib, confirmed that agreement had been reached on appointing Ulum to the post he already held under the initial Iraqi administration set up by the US-led coalition.
Shia and Sunni leaders would meet to discuss the appointment of Sunni Saadun al-Duleimi to the post of defence minister and of Shia Mohsen Shalash as minister for electricity, Dabbagh said.
In a further sign of tension within the governing coalition, Kurdish leader Massud Barzani warned Friday that the removal of a reference to federalism in the oath sworn by incoming ministers on Tuesday could threaten the Kurds' alliance with the Shia bloc.
The principle of federalism is of paramount importance to the Kurds, who already enjoy a high level of autonomy in northern Iraq and want to see it enshrined in the permanent constitution, which is to be drafted this year.
Meanwhile in Washington, the US military said President George W. Bush had demoted Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, former commander of Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, following the scandal over the abuse of detainees there.
The action made Karpinski, an army reservist, the highest ranking officer to be punished in the wake of the scandal at the US-run prison.