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Atul Aneja
MANAMA: Alarmed by the recent surge in violence, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has paid a surprise visit to Iraq, in a bid to defuse the political crisis. Dr. Rice visited the Kurdish city of Irbil in northern Iraq and met Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani. Kurds are only second in influence to the majority Shia community that dominates the new Government. Later in Baghdad, she met Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, who belongs to the Shia Al Dawa party.
34 bodies found
The visit is timed with the drafting of a constitution before the August 15 deadline. In escalating violence that has claimed at least 400 lives during the fortnight, four persons were killed and 15 injured in a car bomb attack in the town of Baquba. Al-Jazeera television has reported that 34 bodies of men shot dead, beheaded or with their throats slit have been discovered across Iraq. Thirteen of them were believed killed in the last 24 hours, and were found in a shallow grave in Baghdad's Sadr City. The bodies of 10 soldiers, all with their throats cut, have been uncovered in the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. Dr. Rice said she was concerned that Sunnis, who form the second largest community, were not participating fully in the political process. They also only had a token representation on a committee that has been set up to draft the constitution. The Sunnis are spearheading the resistance to the U.S. occupation. The U.S. military has claimed that it has ended its weeklong operation in the western Anbar province that borders Syria. It said its troops had killed 120 guerillas, disrupted staging posts and infiltration routes in the remote desert area. The U.S., in the past, had claimed that it had smashed guerilla bases in Fallujah, Samarra and Talafar. Its exertions have not dented the resistance, which appears to have gathered greater momentum in recent weeks.
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