Thousands have died in the violence in Iraq

Mahdi Ahmed al-Juburi was found guilty last week by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, together with 11 other fighters. Four of them were jailed for life.

Al-Juburi led a cell in the northern city of Mosul and reportedly admitted to conducting operations against Iraqi security forces.

The US military said in a statement: "The defendant believes in killing coalition forces, Iraqi police and Iraqi National Guard members because he says they are not enforcing God's will.
  
"The defendant has regularly kidnapped people, interrogated them and then killed them, frequently in front of their families."
  
He also allegedly confessed to killing an army colonel.
  
The four men sentenced to life had been arrested by US-led forces after a search of their house found a badly beaten Egyptian who had been held for the past 18 days, and a large number of weapons.
  
The remaining trials involved sentences ranging from two to 10 years for cases of weapons possession and illegal entry into Iraq.

Unremitting violence
  
Meanwhile, 16 people were killed on Tuesday in attacks, including a car bombing on a busy Baghdad street.

Lawlessness is sweeping much of Iraq

The car bomb in the southeastern suburb of Baghdad al-Jadida aimed at a police patrol killed five people and wounded seven others, an interior ministry source said.
  
In Mosul, a family of blacksmiths was attacked when armed men drove up next to their car and opened fire, killing four and wounding one, police said.

Elsewhere in the city, a former official of the Baath party which ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the former president, was also killed in a drive-by shooting in front of his house.

Three day labourers on their way to work were also killed when gunmen in a car raked their mini-bus with bullets on the road from Baquba to Khalis, northeast of the capital, police said.
  
East of Baquba, in Balad Ruz, a bomb went off near the courthouse killing a 10-year-old boy and wounding two others.
  
Ali Hussein Ali, a university professor, was walking on his way to work at the Technology University when gunmen in a car shot him dead and drove off.
   
Three corpses were found in Baghdad: two floating in different spots on the Tigris river, and one of a boy from the Dura neighbourhood, police said.
  
The boy, who was kidnapped on Monday, had been tortured before being shot through the head.

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