Bodies of 11 Sunni Iraqis found dead

A source in the Sunni Waqf Divan, one of the main Sunni leadership in Iraq, announced that 11 bodies inlcuding one for a Sunni Mosque Imam (preacher) were found in Baghdad.

The source which asked to be anonymous said that the "11 bodies were found on Tuesday in the outskirts of al-Sader city ( east) by al-Hubeibah police center." The same source added that those persons, according to their relatives, were arrested from their homes in al-Rabee quarters at the hands of Iraqi ministry of the interior forces on Sunday at dawn, noting that the bodies seemed to have been shot in the head.

The chairman of the Sunni Waqf Divan, Sheikh Adnan al-Duleimi, called on the Iraqi government "to carry out immediate investigations with the results to be presented to the mass media, especially as these operation were frequently carried out in areas of al-Shaab, al-Ikanm al-Sedeyeh, al-Amereyeh and Abu Ghreib."