Coalition soldier killed in clash

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Clashes with Shiite militiamen loyal to a radical cleric left one coalition soldier dead in a southern Iraqi city today, while hundreds of Iraqis protested the treatment of prisoners in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
The Polish command in Iraq said in a statement that the soldier was killed in Karbala in fighting with a militia loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr. There was no immediate information on the nationality of the soldier. Polish peacekeepers are active in the area.
U.S. soldiers clashed repeatedly earlier this week with al-Sadr militiamen in the nearby city of Najaf, where the anti-American cleric is based.
Outside Abu Ghraib prison, Iraqi protesters chanted "democracy doesn't mean killing innocent people" and "America and Israel are the enemies of God."
Iraq's U.S.-appointed human rights minister, Abdul-Basat al-Turki said Tuesday he had resigned to protest the abuses.
Interior Minister Samir Shaker Mahmoud al-Sumeidi said Iraqi officials must have a role in running prisons.
"We have been calling for greater participation -- or at least at the beginning, some participation -- by Iraqi authorities in the running and management of the prisons," al-Sumeidi said.
The U.S. military called in a new commander to take charge of prisons in Iraq after the previous chief, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, was suspended amid the abuse investigations.