Iraq's president said Wednesday that the bodies of more than 50 people had been pulled from the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad, and other officials said 19 or 20 Iraqi soldiers had been abducted and executed in a sports stadium.
In Baghdad, attackers tried to assassinate former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi with a car bombing of a convoy he was riding in. Allawi wasn't injured, but three other suicide car bombers killed at least three people in other attacks.
The latest violence suggested that after a brief lull, Iraqi insurgents and Sunni Muslim extremists are stepping up their attacks against Iraqi security forces, Shiite Muslims and U.S. troops in an effort to cripple Iraq's new government and provoke violence between Sunnis and Shiites.
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