Sectarian Violence Kills 40 In Iraq
Nji Che - All Headline News Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - More than 40 Sunnis were killed on Sunday after Shiite gunmen invaded a western Baghdad street, pulling Sunnis out from their cars and along the street before killing them. Police have confirmed the gunmen killed more than 40 Sunnis in the scattered attacks that occurred in the Iraqi capital. Several hours after the incident, two car bombs exploded near a Shiite mosque in the north of Baghdad. The attack which appeared to be a coordinated one killed 17 people and wounded 38. Iraqi security authorities speculate the violence was in response to the initial Shiite-led attacks. Early Monday, a couple of car bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in a Shiite area of Baghdad. The blasts killed close to ten people and wounded dozens more. In another incident, a suicide truck bomb struck a Kurdish political office in the north of the country. Four people were confirmed dead and seven others wounded. Sunni leaders have expressed their outrage over the killings. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, has called for calm in the country. The AP quotes Talabani saying Iraq is, "in front of a dangerous precipice." In another media briefing, the national presidential security adviser Wafiq al-Samaraie told Al-Jazeera television, "we are at the gates of civil war." al-Samaraie has expressed worries saying Iraq could plunge into a civil war if much is not done to calm sectarian tensions |
