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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Suicide bomber attack, Iraq's Shiite city of Karbala

Karbala, Iraq (Reuters)-a Suicide Bombing took place in the Shiite Holy City of Karbala, Iraq, on Sunday, injuring 10 people, while other attacks killed five people, officials said.

Jamal al-Din Shahristani family, an official at the Imam Hussein shrine, said, a technician who works on a project between that location and the shrine of Imam Abbas herself up, raises a number of victims, the AFP report.

A policeman and an employee of the Hospital of Karbala say, 10 people injured in the bombing in the City South of Baghdad.

The second grandson of Muhammad's tomb is among the holiest places for Shiites, residents and is visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from Iraq and abroad every year.

There is no party that claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni guerrillas often launch such attacks in an attempt to destabilize the Government and encourage the return of sectarian violence like in 2005-2008.

Also Sunday, three roadside bombs exploded next to the northeast of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring nine others, said some medical and security officials, while a bomb killed a soldier in a magnetic patch in Utayfiyah, North of Baghdad.

A number of armed men also attacked the checkpoint west of the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, killing two soldiers, said an army officer and a doctor.

Violence is the last of a wave of bombings and suicide attacks in the middle of a political crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Government partners and protest marches over the past few weeks demanding his resignation.

Throughout February, 220 people were killed in violence in Iraq, according to the data, based on AFP information from security sources and medical.

Iraq is engulfed in political chaos and violence that killed thousands of people since u.s. forces completed a withdrawal from the country on 18 December 2011, leaving security responsibilities to Iraq troops.

In addition to having problems with the Kurds, Iraq's Government is also at odds with Sunni groups.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (Shiite) since December 2011 sought the arrest of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on charges of terrorism and attempting to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-absolute. Both are Sunni leaders.

Iraq officials issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on December 19, 2011 after they gain recognition that connect him with terrorist activity.

Dozens of guards of Hashemi, a Sunni Arab leader, was arrested in a few weeks after the announcement, but it is not clear how many people were now on hold.

Hashemi, who denied the allegations, was hiding in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and Kurdish leaders refused to pass them to Baghdad.

The Kurdish government even allowed the regional visit to Hashemi did Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. (M014)



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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Bomb kills 18 at Shi'ite funeral in Iraq

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By Kareem Raheem

HILLA, Iraq | Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:55pm EDT

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed in Iraq and dozens more wounded on Friday when a large car bomb exploded among mourners crowding into a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Hilla.

The blast left burned bodies and damaged vehicles scattered near a mosque where relatives had gathered in a tent for the funeral of a local sheikh, witnesses said.

"Suddenly the place turned into hell," said Haider Qahtan, 37, whose hand was injured in the blast. "All my relatives were cut down and their bodies were burned."

Police officials at the scene put the death toll at 18 at least, with a further 63 people wounded.

Violence in Iraq has eased since sectarian strife took the country to the brink of civil war a few years after the 2003 U.S. invasion. But Sunni Islamists tied to al Qaeda and Shi'ite militias still attack almost daily as American troops prepare to leave at year end.

Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, is a mainly Shi'ite city on a route used by pilgrims visiting Shi'ite holy sites to the south.

Sunni insurgents have often targeted Shi'ites with car bombs and suicide attacks in an attempt to rekindle sectarian tensions and test Iraq's government and security forces.

Recent attacks and incidents in the Sunni heartland of Anbar in western Iraq and in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala have fueled worries of resurgent sectarian violence and tensions over who controls disputed areas.

More than eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, U.S. troops are scheduled to pull out when a security pact expires December 31. About 44,000 U.S. troops are still in Iraq mainly advising and assisting the Iraqi forces.

U.S. and Iraqi officials say local armed forces are capable of containing the country's weakened by stubborn insurgency, but they say U.S. trainers may stay on to help Iraq's military fill some capability gaps such as air and maritime defense.

(Additional reporting by Waleed Ibrahim and Muhanad Mohammed; Writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)



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