An iraqi man examine the site Tuesday Dec. 27, 2005, where municipal workers doing maintenance work in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq, uncovered remains that police believed were part of a mass grave thought to date back to 1991, when Saddam Hussein's regime quenched a Shiite uprising in the south. On Tuesday, the remains, discovered on Monday, were sent for testing in an effort to identify the bodies, Karbala police spokesman Rahman Mashawy said. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
AP - The Shiite religious bloc leading Iraq's parliamentary elections held talks Tuesday with Kurdish leaders about who should get the top 12 government jobs, as thousands of Sunni Arabs and secular Shiites protested what they say was a tainted vote. |