The security situation in Iraq; Bader organization deny killings
The Iraqi recent diplomatic moves were coupled by a series of acts of violence that resulted in killing and injuring several Iraqis. A booby trapped car explosion in al-Kazemeyah quarters in a vehicle for the Iraqi army resulted in killing two soldiers and injuring three.
A booby trapped car explosion near Huseneyat al-Imam al-Mahdi in al-Sedeyah to the south of Baghdad resulted in killing two persons and injuring five. Damages were inflected in al-Huseneyah and housing buildings and the adjoining trade centers.
In al-Sader city in Baghdad, eight persons were injured in clashes between the Iraqi security forces and the militia of al-Mahdi army of the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader followed a demonstration against the USA in al-Nasereyah to the south of Iraq.
The chairman of the Higher Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, called on the Iraqi people to maintain solidarity following the increase in the pace of tension between the Sunni and Shiite gunmen in the country.
Meantime, the Imams and preachers of the Sunni mosques in Iraq called for the closure of all the Sunni mosques in the country for three running days in protest of the acts of assassination which targeted recently Sunni men of religion.
The commission which supervised 3000 mosques, accused the Shiite Bader organization of assassinating 14 Sunni in Baghdad including three Imams. However, the organization strongly denied these assassinations stressing that a complaint will be filed in this regard.
In Baghdad, the American army announced that four of its soldiers were killed in three separate incidents. It explained in a statement that two soldiers were killed on Thursday by bullets fired at their vehicles in the downtown of the capital. Another soldier was killed in al-Ramadi when he was exposed to fire. A fourth American soldier was killed following a bomb explosion as one bomb went off when one American military vehicle was running in al-Taji to the north of Baghdad.