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Bombs rock Iraq as top Sunni cleric calls for amnesty
 Bomb attacks across Iraq killed at least four people as inmates rioted in a U.S.-run prison and an official warned that a new government was at least a week away from formation. After a surge in violence in the capital that followed a relative post-election lull, influential Sunni cleric Sheikh Abdel-Ghafour al-Samarrai urged President Jalal Talabani to honor his offer of amnesty to insurgents.Baghdad woke up to bombs for the second day when a car bomb intended for a U.S. military convoy passing through the capital's upscale Mansour neighborhood killed at least one person and wounded five, including an American soldier, police and the U.S. military said. Al-Qaeda's wing in Iraq said one of its suicide bombers drove his vehicle into a convoy of American "cross worshippers" while traveling in Mansour and inflicted casualties. Just 10 minutes later, a roadside bomb went off in eastern Baghdad, targeting an Iraqi Army convoy, killing one civilian and wounding three, an interior ministry source said. A roadside bomb near the central city of Samarra killed two Iraqi soldiers, an army source said. The attacks came the day after twin suicide car bombs hit a highway police patrol in Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding dozens. In southern Iraq, a prisoner at the U.S.-run Camp Bucca detention center was murdered, triggering a fight between inmates that left 12 wounded on Thursday night, the U.S. military said. "The fight was confined between the detainees in one compound and was not directed at U.S. forces," the American military said in a statement. The incident comes just two weeks after 12 prisoners and four American guards were wounded in a riot in which detainees burned tents and hurled rocks at Camp Bucca, the country's largest U.S.-run detention facility with more than 6,000 inmates. The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for an investigation into the incident at Camp Bucca, which was the scene of another riot at the end of January that left four dead. Posted by: Fred 2005-04-16 |
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