ஷியாக்களின் மிகப்புனிதமான இடமான கர்பாலாவில் இருக்கும் இமாம் உசேன் மசூதிக்கு அருகே வைக்கப்பட்டிருந்த கார் வெடிகுண்டு தாக்குதலில் அந்த மசூதிக்கு மாலையில் தொழுகைக்கு வந்த 55 ஷியா மக்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டனர்.
Explosion near shrine in Iraq kills 55 By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
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BAGHDAD - A parked car exploded Saturday near one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in the city of Karbala as people were headed to the area for evening prayers, killing 55 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
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The explosion took place in a crowded commercial area near the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, officials said. At least 55 people were killed and 70 wounded, said Salim Kazim, the head of the Karbala health department.
A car bomb exploded in the same area on April 14, killing 47 and wounding 224.
Saturday's explosion occurred a few hundred yards from the Imam Abbas shrine, setting several cars on fire and causing chaos. The explosion took place as the streets were filled with people heading for evening prayers at the Abbas shrine and the adjacent Imam Hussein shrine, two of Iraq's holiest Shiite sites.
An angry crowd gathered after the explosion, many of them searching frantically for missing relatives. Some threw stones at the police, accusing them of failing to protect the people.
Police fired weapons in the air to disperse onlookers.
Iraqi television showed a huge plume of black smoke rising from the street as ambulances rushed to retrieve the wounded. One man carried the charred body of a small girl as he ran.
On Friday, a suicide truck bomber attacked the home of a city police chief in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, killing nine Iraqi security forces and six civilians, the U.S. military said Saturday. Police chief Hamid Ibrahim al-Numrawi and his family escaped injury after Iraqi forces opened fire on the truck before it reached the concrete barrier outside the home in Hit, 85 miles west of Baghdad.
Elsewhere, U.S. forces detained 17 suspected insurgents in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq on Saturday, the military said, a day after the Pentagon announced the capture of one of the terror network's most senior and experienced operatives.
"We're achieving a deliberate, systematic disruption in the al-Qaida in Iraq network," Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman, said in a statement.
U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad declined to comment about Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, 46, who was captured last fall on his way to Iraq, where he may have been sent by top terror leaders in Pakistan to take a senior position in al-Qaida in Iraq, officials said Friday in Washington.
The insurgent group has claimed responsibility for some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq, including the bombing last year of a revered Shiite mosque in Samarra, which touched off a cycle of sectarian killings.
After being secretly held by the CIA for months, al-Iraqi — who was born in the northern city of Mosul and once served in Iraq's military — has been shipped to the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison for terror suspects, the Pentagon said.
Marines working off of information from a captured insurgent found a truck loaded with explosives early Friday near Fallujah, the military said. After the area was evacuated, American fighter jets destroyed the truck, the military said.
In Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces detained eight suspected insurgents and confiscated three caches of weapons during a raid on an apartment complex on April 22, including mortars, rockets and ammunition. The weapons appeared to be new and "were stamped with recent dates and Iranian markings," the military said.
The United States has frequently accused Iran of allowing insurgents to enter this country carrying weapons such as deadline roadside bombs used to attack U.S. and Iraqi convoys.
Separately, Denmark also announced it is sending special forces to southern Iraq in an effort to stop stepped-up attacks against Danish and British soldiers in the Shiite-dominated area near the southern city of Basra.
Danish officials said the troops were on a temporary mission that would not affect the country's plans to withdraw its contingent by August and replace it with a smaller helicopter unit.
"I can confirm that the Iraqis, Danes and British are putting a great effort into finding the elements that are shooting at Danish and British soldiers day and night," Defense Minister Soeren Gade told Danish broadcaster TV2.
Eleven British soldiers have been killed in the area this month, raising to 145 the number of British troops who have died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Six Danish soldiers have been killed in Iraq.
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Associated Press writer Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm, Sweden, contributed to this report.
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நான்கு இந்தியர்களும் ஒரு இரண்டு வயது ஈரானிய சிறுமியும் இந்த தாக்குதலில் இறந்திருக்கிறார்கள் என்று செய்திகள் கூறுகின்றன. அவர்களுக்கு அஞ்சலி
மத வெறி பிடித்து அப்பாவி ஷியாக்களை கொல்லும் சுன்னி தீவிரவாதிகளை கண்டிப்போம்
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Gulf/Four_Indians_among_71_dead_in_Iraq_blast/articleshow/1977057.cms
Four Indians among 71 dead in Iraq blast
BAGHDAD: American forces fired an artillery barrage at targets in southern Baghdad on Sunday while Iraqi rescuers scoured wreckage for the victims of explosion that left more than 70 dead, including four Indians.
The death toll from the suicide bombing near a revered shrine in the Shia pilgrimage city of Karbala rose to 71 overnight as scores of victims suffered in hospital wards crowded with 178 wounded.
There was a two-year-old Iranian girl among those killed, and four Indian men. Two Iranian men were wounded,” city health spokesman Salim Khadhim said. Karbala is a site of pilgrimage for Shias from around the world.
Meanwhile, as the sun rose over Baghdad, a series of massive detonations could be heard from southwestern districts, where Iraqi security officials said a US operation was under way in support of the capital’s joint security plan.
“Eighteen rounds of artillery were fired from Forward Operating Base Falcon,” said US spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Chris Garver, without identifying the target of a salvo that could be heard 10 kilometres away.
US command in Baghdad reported that fighting and roadside bombs had claimed the lives of seven more American soldiers and two marines over two days of intense violence, bringing the month's toll to 91.
American troops also detained 72 suspected insurgents and seized nitric acid and other bomb-making materials during raids on Sunday targeting Al Qaida in Iraq in Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent stronghold west of the capital, and Salahuddin province, a volatile Sunni area northwest of the capital, the US military said.
Iraqis in the southern region of the city said American and Iraqi forces had stepped up their operations in the Dora area of southern Baghdad starting Saturday night.
Authorities in northern Iraq imposed an indefinite curfew in the Sunni stronghold of Samarra after leaflets signed by rival insurgent groups threatened policemen if they did not quit their jobs and promised to target any oil company that wants to explore in the area.
//மத வெறி பிடித்து அப்பாவி ஷியாக்களை கொல்லும் சுன்னி தீவிரவாதிகளை கண்டிப்போம்//
Everyone should condemn this..
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