Relative calm after bloody day that claimed 60 persons in Iraq
Iraq, Military, 3/1/2006

An official at the US State Department said that the situation in Iraq has become relatively calm and returned to normal despite the occurrence of acts of violence that resulted in killing 60 persons on Tuesday in Baghdad.

The coordinator of Iraq's affairs at the US state department James Jeffery said that the Iraqi and American security forces are controlling the general situation in Iraq, 6 days after the explosion of the dome of the shrine of Imam Ali al-Hadi in Samara city north of Baghdad and the eruption of sectarian acts of terrorism at a large scale.

For its part, the Iraqi government spoke in a statement of the death of 379 Iraqis since the explosions of Samara last Wednesday in all the Iraqi governorates. The advisor for the national security Muwaffaq al-Rubei announced that ten men were seized, said to be involved in the explosions, noting that those men are linked to al-Qaida organization and that four of them are guards of the shrine.

Despite the facts that tanks are deployed in the Iraqi capital in order to preserve the fragile calm, following the sectarian clashes, a series of attacks Baghdad yesterday evening when one booby trapped car went off near one Shiite mosque and a poultry market in al-Hurriah ( freedom) quarters leaving 25 killed and 43 injured, according to the ministry of interior.

This explosion was preceded by three simultaneous attacks in quarters in Baghdad that resulted in killing 30 Iraqis and injuring 130 others, according to police and health sources.

Six persons were killed and other 18 injured in a booby trapped car explosions near Arkheita market in al-Karradah area in the center of Baghdad. Then 24 persons were killed and other 188 injured in a booby trapped car explosions in New Baghdad area,. This was in a suicide attack by an explosive belt amid a crowd of persons waiting to buy home fuels.

A source at the Iraqi ministry of defense announced the killing of five and injuring seven of guards of the advisor of the minister of defense Daham Radi al-Assal in a bomb explosion when his procession was running to the east of Baghdad. However, al-Assal escaped the explosion.

To the south of Baghdad, the British army admitted that two of its soldiers were killed when their vehicle was hit by an explosive at the quarters of al-Amara city.

The American army announced that one of its soldier was killed in a fire launching west of Baghdad, thereby number of the American soldiers killed in Iraq since the invasion of this country increased to 2293, according to Pentagon statistics.

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