BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Police raise a do...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Police raise a dozen bodies in a grate in the Tigris River, and a roadside bomb killed sum of two units U.S. soldiers on a base patrol south of Baghdad forward Saturday, 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 incite seen largely as a gesticulation to Turkey, which had threatened to transmit troops across the border to overturn the group's bases in northern Iraq.

Also Saturday, a state commission said nearly 40 top officials of the last pair 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 construct in Suwayrah, 25 miles toward the south of Baghdad, at one of the metal grates fixed in the river to stop debris, Mamoun al-Rubaie of the Kut city morgue said.

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All were men between 35 and 45 and had been confine blindfolded and shot in the head or chest, al-Rubaie said. They appeared to be victims of sectarian death squads.

Police also fix 15 other bullet-riddled bodies of men who had been handcuffed and blindfolded in six neighborhoods from top to toe the Baghdad area, police Lt Mohammed Khayoun said.

Another 21 the community were killed Saturday, mostly in Baghdad, if it were not that also in Hillah, Mosul and Basra.

The roiling violence, especially between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Baghdad area, has alarmed U commanders, prompting them to order nearly 12000 more American and Iraqi soldiers into the capital.

The United States has about 32400 numbers in Baghdad and areas southward of the capital -- of which about 13500 are in the city fitting Maj. Gen. James Thurman said Saturday.

U and Iraqi officials have said the reinforcements will focus upon about four neighborhoods where Sunni residents do not trust the Shiite-dominated Iraqi security forces.

Nevertheless, Gen Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he would not order out significant U.S. troop reductions this year. Pace, who arrived in Baghdad in succession Saturday, said such a decision would be pendent on improvements in the security situation and would ensue after consultations with U.S. commanders in Iraq.

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As part of the renewed security crackdown, the U military Saturday said 60 men had been orbiculared up the day before at a funeral in the southern Arab Jabour neighborhood, a mainly Sunni district.

The 60 were fancy to include members of an al-Qaida-affiliated confined apartment that "specializes in bomb making" and carried abroad car bomb attacks in the capital, a U statement said.

"The cluster has been reported to be planning and conducting training for yet to be attacks," it said.

In an interview with the novel York Times published Saturday, the U ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, said Iran was encouraging Shiite militias to stair up attacks on U.S. forces in retaliation for the Israeli assault upon Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Shiite Hezbollah is backed according to Iran.

Privately, one senior U.S. officials are skeptical that the Iranian direction is doing more than providing standard of value to select Shiite groups. Others insist Iran is providing weapons and training to more [i]or[/i] less Shiite factions.

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