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| Iraq |
| Mosques torched after worst Iraq bombing |
| 2006-11-24 |
| Gunmen bent on revenge burned mosques and homes in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad on Friday as Iraq's leaders pleaded for calm, a day after the worst bomb attack since the U.S. invasion raised the spectre of civil war. Some 30 people were killed, police said, as suspected Shiite militiamen rampaged for hours, untroubled by a curfew enforced in the capital by U.S. and Iraqi forces after bombs killed 202 people in the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City. Four mosques were burnt in a small Sunni part of the mainly Shi'ite Hurriya district in northwest Baghdad, officials said. One witness said 14 people were killed in his mosque during Friday prayers: "It was attacked by rocket-propelled grenades," university teacher Imad al-Din al-Hashemi said. "When the gunmen moved on to attack another mosque, we evacuated the wounded." Following a daylight raid on a Shi'ite-run ministry building on Thursday, it was the second such bold appearance by guerrillas in Baghdad in as many days. With the competence and sectarian loyalties of Iraq's U.S.-trained security forces in doubt, some fear such clashes could erupt into open warfare. Most Baghdad residents stayed fearfully at home on Friday. The vehicle curfew was extended throughout Saturday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Very many secondary explosions? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-11-24 21:10 |