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Insurgents seek to exploit sectarian rivalries { May 17 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq17e_20050517.htm http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq17e_20050517.htm Iraq's body count rises with grisly discoveries May 17, 2005 BY BASSEM MROUE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least eight Iraqis were found shot near a Baghdad dam and a slain Iraqi Kurd was left in a garbage dump in northern Iraq, police said Monday, raising the number of bodies recovered in recent days to 50. The government pledged to track down those responsible, saying insurgents were seeking to exploit sectarian rivalries. Most of the bodies were found over the weekend; the Iraqi Kurd was found Monday. Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr came out of hiding Monday for the first time since his fighters clashed with U.S. forces in Najaf and Baghdad in August, delivering a fiery speech demanding that coalition forces leave Iraq and that deposed President Saddam Hussein be punished. Meanwhile, Interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari paid a surprise visit Monday to the home of Iraq's top Shi'ite leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in Najaf, al-Sistani aide Maitham Faysal told the Associated Press. It was the leader's first meeting with al-Sistani since the new government was formed. Batches of bodies were found in various areas over the weekend, from a garbage-strewn vacant lot in Baghdad's Sadr City slum to a Latifiyah chicken farm south of the capital in a region dubbed the Triangle of Death. A spokesman for al-Jaafari condemned the killings and said security forces were determined to catch those responsible. The attacks "aim to create sectarian fighting in the country because such clashes could bring more recruits to" militant "groups," spokesman Laith Kuba told the Associated Press. "The government is aware of that and will not let this plan succeed." In other violence against Iraq's security forces Monday: •A car bomb exploded near a market in Baghdad's Abu Dshir area, a Shi'ite enclave in the predominantly Sunni Dora neighborhood, causing numerous civilian casualties, police said. Minutes later, another car bomb exploded, targeting soldiers who responded to the initial blast. •A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi soldiers as they raced to a fire station that had come under mortar fire in Khan Bani Saad, 20 miles northeast of Baghdad, police Col. Mudafar Mohammed said. As of Monday, at least 1,620 U.S. military personnel have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003. ABU GHRAIB: A military jury on Monday convicted a soldier in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, returning guilty verdicts on all but one of the seven charges she faced for her role in the abuse of Iraqi inmates. A military panel in Ft. Hood, Texas, convicted Spec. Sabrina Harman on one count of conspiracy to maltreat detainees, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of dereliction of duty. The 27-year-old reservist from Lorton, Va., was acquitted on one maltreatment count that accused her of photographing a group of Iraqi detainees who were forced to masturbate in public by Abu Ghraib guards. The jury also found that Harman didn't commit two of the nine acts that were part of the dereliction charge, but she was convicted of the overall offense. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin today. Harman faces a maximum of 5 1/2 years in a military prison.

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