அமைதிமார்க்கத்தினர் ஒருவரோடு ஒருவர் அடித்துகொண்டதில் நால்வர் பலி

ஷியா சுன்னி என்ற இரண்டு பிரிவு இஸ்லாமியர்களும் மசூதிகளிலிருந்து ஒருவரோடு ஒருவர் போரிட்டதில் 4 பேர் பலியானார்கள். 28 பேர் படுகாயமடைந்தனர்.



Curfew imposed in Hangu after four killed in sectarian clashes

* 28 injured in clashes between Sunnis and Shias

Staff Report

HANGU: A curfew has been imposed in Hangu district after clashes erupted between Shia and Sunni Muslims during a Nauroz procession on Friday, leaving four dead and 28 injured. Two of the injured are said to be in critical condition.

The violence erupted after members of the Shia community of the region came under fire as they hoisted a flag on a mosque to mark the Persian New Year festival of Nauroz. Locals said the Nauroz celebrations were going on peacefully at a madrassa when they were fired upon with rockets and mortar shells, APP reported.

“We have clamped an indefinite curfew and summoned troops to restore peace. The situation is tense,” local police officer Akbar Ali told AFP after the incident. He said sporadic firing continued despite the curfew.

The district co-ordination officer of the region also called a jirga that successfully negotiated a truce between Sunnis and Shias of the area. The ceasefire is to last five months. Each sect has deposited Re 1 million with the jirga as a form of surety bond.

A curfew was also imposed in Khairpur in Sindh after unidentified gunmen opened fire on a procession by Sunni Muslims, AFP reported.

புஷ்பபுரம் என்று அழைக்கப்பட்ட பெஷாவரில் ஷியா மசூதியில் குண்டுவெடித்து 4பேர் பலி

ஒரு காலத்தில் மலர்கள் பூத்து குலுங்கும் நகரமாக இருந்ததால் புஷ்பபுரம் என்று அழைக்கப்பட்ட நகரம் தற்போது பெஷாவர் என்று வழங்கும் பாகிஸ்தானிய நகரம். அப்போது அது இந்துக்களின் நகரமாக இருந்தது. அங்கிருந்து இந்துக்கள் துரத்தப்பட்டு வந்தேறி அரபுகளும், பெர்ஷியர்களும் குடியேறி அது இஸ்லாமிய் நகரமாக ஆன பின்னால் பெஷாவர் என்று மாறி, தற்போது தினந்தோறும் வன்முறையும், வெடிகுண்டும், தற்கொலை தாக்குதலும் நடக்கும் நகரமாக ஆகியிருக்கிறது.

தற்போது பெஷாவரில் ஷியா பிரிவினர் வணங்கும் மசூதியில் குண்டு வெடித்து நான்கு ஷியா பிரிவினர் கொல்லப்பட்டிருக்கின்றனர்.

மீண்டும் பெஷாவர் புஷ்பபுரமாகி இந்துக்களாக இவர்கள் மாறி இங்கு அமைதி திரும்ப வேண்டும் என்று எல்லாம் வல்ல இறையை இறைஞ்சுவோம்.

Explosion at Pakistan Shia mosque

An explosion at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has left at least four people dead, officials say.
The cause of the explosion, which came as Shias prepared to mark the Ashura festival, was not immediately clear but witnesses reported a suicide bomber.

Up to 20 people were wounded in the blast at the capital of the north-western frontier province.

Security has been high in Pakistan during the holy month of Muharram, of which Ashura marks the climax.

Pakistan has a history of violence between Sunni and Shia extremists.

Last week a suicide bomber killed more than 20 people at a police checkpoint in the eastern city of Lahore but it is not clear if that attack was sectarian.

ஷியா மசூதிக்கு நேர் எதிரே பாக்தாதில் குண்டுவெடித்து 15 ஷியாக்கள் பலி

மத்திய பாக்தாதில் ஷியா பிரிவினர் வாழும் பகுதியில் ஷியா மசூதிக்கு நேர் எதிரே நடந்த கார் குண்டு வெடிப்பில் 15 பேர் மரணமடைந்தனர்.

Car bomb rocks centre of Baghdad


Kirkuk was one of four Iraqi city targeted by car bombers
A car bomb has exploded in a largely Shia neighbourhood of central Baghdad, killing at least 15 people, police say.
The blast came as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates was on a visit to the Iraqi capital. He was meeting Iraqi leaders in the nearby Green Zone.

Bursts of gunfire were heard after the blast and a thick plume of black smoke rose from the Karrada area.

Earlier in the day three parked car bombs exploded in other Iraqi cities, killing at least eight people.

A secure, stable Iraq is within reach

Robert Gates
US Defence Secretary

One of the bombs killed one person in Mosul where Mr Gates landed.

Bombings killed five people in Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, and at least two in the northern city of Kirkuk.

The Baghdad bomb went off near a mosque as people gathered for evening prayers, Reuters news agency reports.

The blast also came just before Mr Gates held a news conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone across the River Tigris.

Despite the violence, Mr Gates said he believed that "a secure, stable Iraq is within reach".

Frequent visits

It is the sixth time Mr Gates has visited Iraq in a year - in September he accompanied President George W Bush.

Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Mr Gates wanted to "get [the military's] take on the situation and to see what more they can do to capitalise on the gains that have been made since the surge of US forces in Iraq".

Mr Gates met Iraqi leaders including Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, as well as the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

The US is starting slowly to reduce the number of combat brigades in Iraq after this year's surge in troop levels, which appears to have succeeded in helping stem violence in the centre of the country.

Iraqi officials say the monthly death toll among civilians and police is falling, with 606 killed in November compared with 887 in October.

பாகிஸ்தான்: ஷியா பிரிவு மதத்தலைவர் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள் சுட்டு வீழ்த்தப்பட்டார்

ஷியா பிரிவினர் மீது தொடர்ந்துநடந்துவரும் தாக்குதல்களின் தொடர்ச்சியாக, சுன்னி இஸ்லாமிய பிரிவு பயங்கரவாதிகள் ஷியா பிரிவு தலைவர்களை தாக்கி கொன்று வருகிறார்கள்.

இஸ்லாமில் அப்பாவியாக சேர்ந்த மக்கள் பின்புதான் தாங்கள் ஏதோ ஒரு பிரிவில் சேர்ந்திருக்கிறோம் என்று அறிகிறார்கள். அவர்கள் மற்ற பிரிவு இஸ்லாமியரால் கொல்லப்படுகிறார்கள்.

இந்துமதத்தில் எத்தனையோ பிரிவுகள் இருந்தாலும் மதக்காரணங்களுக்காக யாரும் யாரையும் கொல்வதில்லை.

ஆகவே இனிய இந்துமதத்துக்கு திசை மாறிய மனிதர்கள் திரும்பிவரவேண்டும்.


Gunmen kill Shia cleric in Tank


PESHAWAR: Masked gunmen on a motorcycle on Thursday shot dead a Shia cleric in Tank, a town already reeling from violence by pro-Taliban militants, police said. Ghulam Abbas, 50, was shot dead outside his home in Tank, police official Sultan Khan said. Police were searching for the assailants, who left their motorcycle behind and fled into a nearby forest, Khan told AFP. Abbas was in charge of a local mosque, he said, adding that the killing appeared to be linked to sectarian rivalry. Shia account for about 20 percent of Pakistan’s 160 million Sunni-dominated population. afp

மசூதி யாருக்கு சொந்தம் என்று ஷியா சுன்னிகள் போரிட்டதில் 17 பேர் பலி

பாகிஸ்தானில் ஒரக்ஸாய் இடத்தில் 18ஆம் நூற்றாண்டு நபரான சையது அமிர் அன்வர் ஷா என்பவரது சமாதியில் உள்ள மசூதி யாருக்கு சொந்தமானது என்று நடந்தபோரில் ஷியாக்களும் சுன்னிகளும் ஒருவரை ஒருவர் ராக்கெட் குண்டுகள், எறிகுண்டுகள் துப்பாக்கிகள் மூலமாக தாக்கிக்கொண்டதில் 17 பேர் பலியானார்கள். ஏராளமானவர்கள் படுகாயமடைந்தனர்.


Pakistan shrine clashes kill 17

Seventeen people have been killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims over a shrine in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, officials say.
The sides exchanged rocket and mortar fire in a dispute over ownership of the shrine to 18th Century figure Syed Amir Anwar Shah in Orakzai tribal region.

The violence began four days ago when clerics from the two sects tried to occupy the shrine.

The latest violence has brought the overall official death toll to 23.

However, tribesmen in the area claim that the number of dead is higher.

Armed volunteers

There were also reports that armed groups from neighbouring tribal regions were arriving in Orakzai to aid Sunni and Shia fighters.

The political administrator for Orakzai, Dr Sher Mahsud, told reporters on Friday that the government had sent Frontier Corps forces to the area to prevent further fighting.

Tribal elders and religious scholars from adjoining regions were being brought in to mediate between the feuding tribes, said Dr Mahsud.

Violence blamed on militants from Pakistan's Sunni and Shia communities has cost the lives of thousands of people over the past two decades.

Sunni Muslims account for around 80% of Pakistan's 160m people and are the dominant group in the tribal areas, although Orakzai has a significant Shia population.

The semi-autonomous tribal regions, which border Afghanistan, are heavily militarised, a legacy of the mujahideen war fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

கர்பாலாவில் ஷியாக்களும் ஷியாக்களும் மோதிக்கொண்டதில் 51 பேர் பலி

ஷியாக்களின் மிக முக்கியமான மசூதியான கர்பாலாவில் இரண்டு ஷியா குழுக்கள் அடித்துக்கொண்டதில் 51 பேர்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டனர். ஏராளமானவர்கள் படுகாயமடைந்தனர்.

இதனால் இந்த விழா தள்ளிவைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

Shiite gunmen clash at Karbala festival
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
Tue Aug 28, 6:10 PM ET


BAGHDAD - Fighting erupted Tuesday between rival Shiite militias in Karbala during a religious festival, claiming 51 lives and forcing officials to abort the celebrations and order up to 1 million Shiite pilgrims to leave the southern city.

Security officials said Mahdi Army gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fired on guards around two shrines protected by the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.

Residents of Karbala contacted by telephone said snipers were firing on Iraqi security forces from rooftops. Explosions and the rattle of automatic weapons fire could be heard during telephone calls to reporters in the city 50 miles south of Baghdad.

In addition to the deaths, security officials said at least 247 people were wounded, including women and children.

The clashes appeared to be part of a power struggle among Shiite groups in the sect's southern Iraqi heartland, which includes the bulk of the country's vast oil wealth.

Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said entrances and exits to Karbala "have been secured and more forces are on the way from other provinces." Officials said buses were sent to evacuate pilgrims from the city, which includes some of the world's most sacred Shiite shrines.

Gunfights also broke out Tuesday between Mahdi militiamen and followers of the Supreme Council in at least two Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and in Kut, about 100 miles southeast of the capital, police said.

Extra police took up positions in the center of another Shiite city, Diwaniyah, after gunmen fired on a mosque associated with the Supreme Council, police said. A curfew was clamped on the Shiite city of Najaf after a mortar round exploded on a major square, causing no casualties, officials said.

The trouble started in Karbala late Monday as tens of thousands of Shiites were streaming into the city for the Shabaniyah festival marking the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th and last Shiite imam who disappeared in the 9th century. Devout Shiites believe he will return to Earth to restore peace and harmony.

Scuffles broke out between police and pilgrims as the crowd tried to push through the security checkpoints near the Imam al-Hussein mosque, the focal point of the celebrations. At least five people were killed, police said.

Early Tuesday, crowds of angry pilgrims chanting religious slogans surged through the streets, attacking police and mosque guards, witnesses said. Two ambulances were set ablaze, sending a huge column of black smoke over the city.

Gunmen appeared, firing automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars at security forces and sending panicked pilgrims fleeing the area, police and witnesses said.

A member of the city council said the center of town was in chaos, with pilgrims running in all directions to escape the gunfire.

"We don't know what's going on," said the councilman, who wouldn't allow use of his name for security reasons. "All we know is the huge numbers of pilgrims were too much for the checkpoints to handle and now there is shooting."

Some rounds struck fuel tanks on the roofs of three small hotels, setting them ablaze, police said.

With the situation spiraling out of control, police ordered pilgrims out of the center of the city, effectively canceling the celebrations which were to reach their climax Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

"The area where they (the pilgrims) were gathering has been evacuated in order to control those (criminals)," said Khalaf, the Interior Ministry spokesman. He said the gunmen were gathering in three areas in the old town and security forces were chasing them.

In Baghdad, a senior government security official blamed the fighting on al-Sadr's followers, saying they provoked the confrontations Monday night and were responsible for the shooting Tuesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid enflaming the situation.

But a spokesman for al-Sadr, Ahmed al-Shaibani, denied that the Mahdi Army was involved in the Karbala fighting. Al-Sadr called for an independent inquiry into the clashes and urged his supporters to cooperate with the authorities "to calm the situation down," al-Shaibani said.

Tensions have been rising in southern Iraq as rival Shiite groups maneuver for power, especially in the oil-rich area around Basra, Iraq's second-largest city.

Concern over Basra is mounting as British forces prepare to evacuate the last of their forces from the city and redeploy to the airport 12 miles to the north.

On Tuesday, Hakim al-Miyahi, head of the security committee of the Basra municipal council, told The Associated Press that Iraqi forces were incapable of maintaining order in the city once the British leave and that the Baghdad government should send reinforcements.

"Some disorder will occur in the absence of British troops in Basra," he said. "It will take at least two army divisions to fill the gap that will be created by British troop withdrawal."

Elsewhere, hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters and jet fighters killed 33 Sunni insurgents who were holding back the water supply to the Shiite town of Khalis, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. command said.

The assault began before dawn Monday when a joint force was landed by helicopter in the village of Gubbiya, 10 miles east of Khalis. The assault force killed 13 fighters and attack aircraft killed 20 others, the military said. The area is known to be controlled by al-Qaida in Iraq.

Also Tuesday, a roadside bomb exploded in northern Khalis, killing four Iraqi soldiers, the Iraqi army said.

In Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, mourners buried 11 victims of a mosque suicide bombing Monday. Ten people were wounded in the attack, which police said targeted an anti-al-Qaida Sunni sheik.

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Associated Press correspondents in Karbala contributed to this report but their names were withheld for their security.

சவுதி அரேபியா தலைமை காஜி எல்லா ஷியா மசூதிகளையும் அழிக்க பத்வா

சவுதி அரேபியா தலைமை காஜி எல்லா ஷியா மசூதிகளையும் அழிக்க பத்வா கொடுத்துள்ளார்.

ஈராக்கில் இருக்கும் முக்கியமான ஷியா மசூதிகளுக்கு பலத்த பாதுகாப்பு வேண்டும் என்று ஈரான் கோரியுள்ளது.

Wahhabi Fatwa Inflames Muslim Anger
Missiles Targeting Karbala Confiscated

Shiites performing prayers at the shrine of Imam Hussein (AS) are reflected in the glass of a door in the holy city of Karbala, south of Baghdad.

TEHRAN, July 21--A fatwa (religious decree) allowing destruction of Shiite holy shrines in Iraq by Wahhabi muftis has inflamed Muslim anger around the world.
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia and some other leading Wahhabi muftis endorsed the decree and asked for destruction of the holy shrines of Imam Hossein (AS) and his brother Hazrat Abbas (AS) in Karbala, Iraq, and of their sister Hazrat Zeinab (SA) in Damascus, Syria, Fars reported.In the decree first released before the second attack on Samarra shrines, Wahhabis are asked to destroy all signs of ’polytheism’ in Iraqi cities, an implicit reference to the Shiite shrines.
“The shrine of (Imam) Hossein in Karbala, as one of the main symbols of Shiites, should be destroyed,“ the decree said.
Following the decree, a number of university students at Mohammad bin Saud University formed voluntary committees with the aim of attracting members from the Persian Gulf neighboring states for destroying these shrines in the near future.
The fatwa has given rise to expressions of protest and disgust from all over the world, especially Muslim authorities.
The Iraqi security forces recently received intelligence on the upcoming terrorist attacks against the Shiite holy sites.
Two Gerda missiles ready to target Karbala were also confiscated by the Iraqi security forces in Alvand area some 25 kilometers from the holy city.
Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwaffak Al-Rubaie earlier announced nearly half of the foreign detainees held in Iraq are Saudi citizens and lists of their names were given to Saudi officials during a recent visit by an Iraqi delegation.

லெபனானில் கிறிஸ்துவர் முஸ்லீம் கலவரத்தில் 5 பேர் காயம் ஒருவர் பலி

ஷியா பிரிவு முஸ்லீம்களும் கிறிஸ்துவர்களும் லெபனானில் மோதிக்கொண்டதில் ஐந்து பேர் காயமடைந்தனர். ஒரு போலீஸ்காரர் பலியானார்.

கிறிஸ்துவர்களது பெண்களை ஷியா முஸ்லீம் இளைஞர்கள் துன்புறுத்தியதால், கிறிஸ்துவர்கள் புகார் செய்ய சென்றது கலவரமாக வெடித்தது.



Police officer killed, five men wounded in Muslim-Christian clash in south Lebanon
The Associated PressPublished: July 22, 2007

BEIRUT, Lebanon: A police officer died and five men were injured Sunday in a sectarian clash between Christian villagers and their Shiite Muslim neighbors in southern Lebanon, security officials said.

The fight erupted when residents in the Christian locality of Tanbourit argued with Shiite youths from the nearby town of Ghaziyeh, blaming them of having harassed some women as they cruised around the village in their car, the officials said.

The two groups quickly scuffled and then hurled rocks at each other before shooting broke out, the officials said, speaking on conditions of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Four Tanbourit villagers were wounded in the brawl, and a fifth was hit in the head by a bullet when gunshots erupted, they said.

Elias Samir Haj, 22, a member Lebanon's security services and a village resident, was later killed by the gunmen as he drove the critically injured villager to hospital in the nearby coastal town of Sidon, the officials said.

The Shiite youths were suspected of having fired all of the shots, officials said.

They said the army had arrested 10 men for questioning over the incident, which threatened to inflame sectarian tensions at a time when Lebanon is facing its worst political crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war that tore the country apart along mostly sectarian lines.

Many Lebanese have kept weapons since the war, and the youths suspected in the shooting were not thought to belong to the Shiite Hezbollah or any other guerrilla group, the officials said.

Southern Lebanon is predominantly Shiite, but has a patchwork of communities that often congregate by religion and live in separate villages .

Lebanese troops and policemen deployed in Tanbourit to prevent renewed friction between Christians and Muslims from the two localities, which lie a few hundred meters (yards) from each other. Soldiers also raided a number of houses and hideouts in Ghaziyeh and seized the car used by the youths, officials said.

Ghaziyeh's mayor, Mohammed Samieh Ghadar, denounced the clash and vowed it would not hurt the "brotherly" ties between the two communities.

"This is an isolated incident, it will not affect our relations," Ghadar said.

The bloodshed came as Lebanon is facing its most serious political crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war, with the Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition locked in a fierce power struggle.

The crisis has taken on an increasingly sectarian tone and led to Sunni-Shiite street clashes between pro- and anti-government factions, killing 11 people in recent months.

பஹ்ரைன் ஈரானின் ஒரு பகுதி - சர்ச்சை

ஈரானின் ஆட்சியாளர்களுக்கு நெருங்கிய பத்திரிக்கையில் "பஹ்ரைன் ஈரானின் ஒரு பகுதியே. அது மீண்டும் தாய்நாட்டில் - ஈரானில்- இணைய வேண்டும்" என்று கட்டுரை வெளியானது சர்ச்சைக்குரியதாக ஆகியிருக்கிறது.

பஹ்ரைனில் பெரும்பான்மை ஷியாக்கள். ஆனால், பஹ்ரைனை ஆளுவது சுன்னி அரசர். இங்கே ஷியாக்கள் பல்வேறுவிதங்களில் பாரபட்சம் காட்டப்பட்டு ஒடுக்கப்படுகிறார்கள், வேலைகள் அனைத்தும் சுன்னிகளுக்கே வழங்கப்படுகின்றன என்று வெகுகாலமாக ஷியாக்கள் புகார் செய்து வருகிறார்கள்.

அரபுகளின் ஆட்சிக்குட்பட்ட பஹ்ரைன், தனது அடிமைத்தனத்தை உதறிவிட்டு, அரபு அல்லாத ஈரானுடன் இணையவேண்டும் என்று கட்டுரை கூறுகிறது.

Bahrain Iran’s province claim sparks uproar

MANAMA: Claims by the editor of a hardline Iranian newspaper that Bahrain is part of Iran and should be returned have provoked uproar in the Gulf Arab island which is seeking an explanation from Tehran.

Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of conservative Iranian daily Kayhan, said in an article published on Monday that Bahrain was a province of non-Arab, Shiite Iran, and that Bahrainis were demanding the island’s return to its “native land”. The comments caused a firestorm in Bahrain, which has a majority Shiite population but is ruled by a Sunni royal family, and threaten to escalate into a diplomatic spat.

“We are awaiting an official response from Iran on the ... Shariatmadari issue,” a Bahraini Foreign Ministry official who declined to be named told Reuters on Thursday. Sectarian tensions have flared in Bahrain in the past, as Shiites complain of discrimination in jobs and services. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to whom Shariatmadari is considered close, is one of a number of religious leaders to whom Shiite Muslims look for guidance, although only a minority of Bahraini Shiites follow Khamenei.

Bahrain’s shura council, or upper chamber of parliament, condemned Shariatmadari’s comments. “The shura council in Bahrain has strongly deplored the irresponsible statements released by the advisor to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and managing editor of Iranian daily Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari,” it said in a statement.

Bahrain is an ally of the United States and hosts the US navy’s Fifth Fleet, whose deployment of two aircraft carriers off Iranian waters in recent months has raised pressure on the Islamic Republic in its nuclear standoff with the West.

Iran’s embassy in Bahrain said Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki would address the issue during a trip to the tiny Gulf Arab kingdom on Friday. It was not clear whether Shariatmadari’s comments triggered the visit. Embassy spokesman Abulghasem Vafaei distanced Iranian policy from Shariatmadari, saying he did not advise Iran’s leadership in foreign affairs.

“This article is completely his personal view, it is not related to any official. This man is a journalist, not an adviser in foreign policy,” he said. reuters

21 ஈராகியர் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகளால் கொலை

தொடரும் ஷியா சுன்னி போர்களால் மேலும் 21 ஈராகி மக்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டனர்.

நன்றி கலீஜ் டைம்ஸ்

21 Iraqis dead in a fresh wave of violence
(DPA)
14 July 2007
BAGHDAD- A fresh wave of violence gripped Iraq on Saturday leaving at least 21 people dead in two separate incidents south and north of Baghdad, according to local authorities.


In the town of Al Muqdadiyah, on the suburbs on the north-eastern Sunni-dominated Baquba province, 12 Iraqis belonging to one family were killed when a group of unidentified gunmen stormed into their houses and opened fire on them. The attackers fled immediately after the bloodbath, a police source said.

The incident happened even as US Arrowhead Ripper operations and raids continued across Baquba, 60 kilometres north-east of Baghdad. During past weeks, the US military - with the aid of local security forces - had reportedly killed over 100 Al Qaeda-affiliated militants and captured around 250 others.

In another incident, a group of unknown militants attacked at dawn a house in Al Hilla, 100 kilometres south of Baghdad, shooting dead nine people and wounding three others. The victims included a number of women and children, according to police sources.

Meanwhile in the Shia holy city of Najaf, local authorities decided to lift a 24-hour curfew that was imposed early Friday to curb violence and protect Shia pilgrims visiting the Iman Ali shrine.

A spokesman for the city council in Najaf had earlier justified the blanket curfew by saying there was the risk of ‘possible terrorist acts of revenge.’

ஷியா சுன்னி சமாதான மாநாட்டில் குண்டுவெடிப்பு 21 பேர் பலி

ஷியாக்களும் சுன்னிகளும் தொடர்ந்து ஈராக்கில் ஒருவரை ஒருவர் கொலை செய்துகொண்டிருப்பதாலும் ஒருவர் மற்றவரது மசூதியில் குண்டுவைத்து அப்பாவிகளை கொல்வதாலும், ஈராக் அரசாங்கமும் அமெரிக்காவும் இணைந்து ஷியா சுன்னி தலைவர்களுக்கு இடையே சமாதான ஒப்பந்தம் உருவாக்க சமாதான மாநாடு உருவாக்கினர்.

அந்த மாநாட்டுக்கு வந்த்வர்களை அல்குவேதா தற்கொலை குண்டுதாரி வெடித்து கொலை செய்திருக்கிறார்.மொத்தம் 12 பேர் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளதாக செய்தி கூறுகிறது.

ஷியா சுன்னி தலைவர்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளனர். 7 ஷேக்குகள் (5 சுன்னி ஷேக்குகள், 2 ஷியா சேக்குகள்) கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளதாக செய்திகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.


Iraqi tribal leaders killed in blast at peace talksStory Highlights
Suicide bomber kills at least 12, wounds 21 inside a Baghdad hotel

7 sheikhs -- 5 Sunnis and 2 Shiites -- and TV anchor reported among the dead

Car bomber kills at least 8, wounds 31 at a Hilla government compound

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a busy central Baghdad hotel, killing at least 12 people -- most of them Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders who were meeting as part of Iraq's reconciliation effort -- U.S. and Iraqi officials told CNN.


Iraqi soldiers inspect the Mansur Hotel in Baghdad on Monday after a suicide bombing in the lobby.

An Iraqi journalist was also among those killed in the Mansour Hotel blast, which wounded 21, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Speaking in Washington, President Bush condemned the attack.

"Today once again we saw the brutality that extremists can inflict upon society when a suicider killed innocent people who were working toward reconciliation," he said, vowing "to remain firm and strong as we stand for this young (democracy)."

Video showed the lobby was gutted by the blast. Fragments of the ceiling dangled like threads amid exposed wires. Several bodies were covered by blankets on the debris-strewn floor.

The blast killed seven tribal leaders -- five Sunnis and two Shiites -- and two of their bodyguards, the ministry official said. It also killed Rahim al-Maliki, an anchorman with Iraqiya state television, the official said. Watch the aftermath of the bombing »

It is unclear if there were any U.S. troops at the hotel in connection with the meeting, a U.S. military official told CNN's Barbara Starr. U.S. troops responded to the blast, the military official said.

The Mansour Hotel houses the Chinese embassy and several Western organizations.

South of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber detonated at a Hilla government compound Monday morning, killing at least eight people and wounding 31 others, a Hilla official told CNN.

Among the dead were civilians and security guards, authorities said. The attack took place around 7 a.m. (11 p.m. ET Sunday).

Hilla is located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Baghdad.

A few hours later, another suicide bomber, driving a fuel tanker rigged with explosives, struck Baiji police headquarters in northern Iraq, police said. According to a hospital official, 25 people were killed and 60 others were wounded in the attack. The dead included police, civilians and detainees at the jail.

Baiji is 120 miles (190 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

In Mosul, a car bomb exploded along a road on the southern edge of the city, killing one person and wounding 20 others, police said.


Mosul is about 260 miles (420 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

Two mortar rounds landed in the Fadhil section of Baghdad, a Sunni neighborhood, north of the city center, police said. At least three people were killed and four others were wounded.

செவ்வாயன்று மட்டும் 142 ஈராகியர்கள் ஷியா சுன்னி சண்டையில் பலி

செவ்வாயன்று மட்டுமே 142 பேர் ஷியா சுன்னி சண்டையில் பலியானார்கள் என்று செய்தி தெரிவிக்கிறது.
ஷியா மசூதியில் சுன்னிகளால் செய்யபப்ட்ட டிரக் பாமில் பலியான சியாக்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 87 ஆக உயர்ந்தது. ஷியாக்கள் பதிலடி தாக்குதலில் ஈடுபட்டனர்.

பாக்தாதிலிருக்கும் பல சுன்னி மசூதிகள் தாக்கப்பட்டு உடைக்கப்பட்டன.

87 killed in Baghdad mosque bombing By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 34 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - Gunmen blew up two Sunni mosques Wednesday south of Baghdad, causing heavy damage but no casualties, police said, in an apparent retaliatory attack a day after a suicide truck bombing devastated a revered Shiite mosque in the heart of the capital, killing at least 87 people.

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Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops, meanwhile, pressed forward on the second day of an operation aimed at clearing out a Sunni insurgent stronghold northeast of Baghdad. The U.S. military said at least 30 al-Qaida fighters were killed and several bombs and weapons caches destroyed as the soldiers fought their way through the streets of Baqouba.

The U.S. military operation that involves some 10,000 American soldiers in Diyala province, an al-Qaida bastion to the north and east of Baghdad, matched in size the force that American generals sent against the insurgent-held city of Fallujah 2 1/2 years ago. By late Tuesday, the military had reported only one American death, a Task Force Lightning soldier killed by an explosion near his vehicle.

Iraqi forces also have joined the battle in Diyala. Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said about 5,000 Iraqi soldiers and 2,000 paramilitary police were fighting, while the military said about 1,000 Iraqi soldiers and an equal number of police were involved. The differing numbers could not be immediately reconciled.

The Iraqi Defense Ministry said that three civilians had been wounded in Diyala in addition to the 30 al-Qaida militants. It also said 13 suspected al-Qaida fighters had been detained and 14 roadside bombs dismantled, along with three car bombs and three weapons caches.

"The citizens received the valiant Iraqi army forces with overwhelming joy as the soldiers were waving to them with the V for victory sign," the ministry said in a statement.

The head of a Sunni insurgent group that has turned against al-Qaida and is cooperating with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the area said his fighters were participating in the operations and had succeeded in clearing several neighborhoods in eastern and western Baqouba.

The militant leader, who declined to be identified for fear of retribution, spoke as his fighters linked arms, chanted and danced while women ululated in celebration. An Associated Press reporter also saw residents in the Mustafa area in western Baqouba serving food to fighters who had battled al-Qaida and starting to repair their stores.

Sectarian violence persisted to the south, with suspected Shiite militiamen detonating a bomb inside a Sunni mosque in Haswa, 30 miles south of Baghdad, at about 1 a.m., then in another mosque near Hillah, about 60 miles south of the capital, about six hours later, local police officers said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.

The attackers near Hillah also targeted the imam's house near the mosque, but the cleric fled when he saw them coming, according to the police.

Tuesday's bombing against the Khulani mosque in central Baghdad was the deadliest single attack in Iraq since April 18, when at least 127 civilians were killed when a bomb detonated in a parked car at a mostly Shiite market in central Baghdad.

Police said a truck piled high with electric fans and air conditioners delivered the huge bomb at the Khulani mosque. The powerful explosion in the busy commercial district cut deep into Iraq's Shiite community on just the second day after authorities lifted a four-day curfew in the capital.

The vehicle ban had been imposed to prevent revenge attacks after a bombing last week brought down twin golden minarets at the important Shiite al-Askariya shrine in Samarra, north of the capital. A bombing that destroyed the golden dome there on Feb. 26, 2006, set in motion the sectarian bloodletting that has sundered the sectarian fault line in Iraq.

Tuesday's suicide bombing bore the hallmarks of Sunni insurgents, particularly al-Qaida. The Khulani mosque's imam, Sheik Saleh al-Haidari, said the bombing was particularly deadly because worshippers were just leaving a prayer service.

"This attack was planned and carried out by sick souls," al-Haidari told The Associated Press by telephone. He said his office and the room above collapsed but that he was not in the mosque at the time of the attack.

A courtyard wall collapsed, and a building just inside the mosque compound was turned to rubble. The mosque sanctuary was slightly damaged. AP Television News footage showed broken glass scattered on the patterned rugs that lined the floor around the golden tomb that is believed to hold the remains of Sheik Mohammed Othoman Said al-Khulani.

Al-Khulani is a much-revered Shiite figure who, according to the sect's tradition, was one of four "earthly" deputies anointed by the Imam Mohammed al-Mahdi, who disappeared in the 9th century. Shiites believe the so-called "Hidden Imam" will return to Earth to restore justice to humanity.

The Interior Ministry reported Wednesday that the death toll had risen to 87, with another 214 injured in the blast.

Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a military spokesman in Baghdad, said the truck was loaded with propane tanks and that a suicide driver detonated his bomb when the vehicle became stuck trying to drive over a curb.

Battles also continued south of Baghdad between Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Four soldiers were killed and a Humvee was burned in nearly two hours of clashes in the Shiite town of Numaniyah, 77 miles southeast of Baghdad, police said. The fighting erupted hours after five other Iraqi soldiers were killed and three were wounded by a roadside bomb in the mainly Sunni town of Madain, on the southeastern outskirts of Baghdad.

Further south, the U.S. military said three militants had been killed, including a senior leader of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, and 45 detained after two days of clashes in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. Iraqi police and hospital officials put the casualty toll at 35 killed and 150 wounded.

In all, 142 people were killed or found dead in sectarian violence Tuesday, a toll reflecting carnage associated with the months before the U.S. security crackdown in the capital began Feb. 14.

ஷியா பிரிவினரால் ஈராக் முழுவதும் உடைக்கபப்ட்ட சுன்னி மசூதிகளின் படங்கள்

அல் அஸ்கரி ஷியா மசுதி உடைக்கப்பட்டதன் எதிர்வினையாக ஈராக் முழுவதும் சுன்னி மசூதிகள் சியா பிரிவின் தீவிரவாதிகளால் உடைக்கப்பட்ட்ன.
அவற்றின் படங்கள்.










உடைக்கப்பட்ட அல் அஸ்கரி ஷியா மசுதி


சென்றவாரம் ஈரானுக்கு சென்றுவிட்டு திரும்பி ஈராக் வந்த ஷியா பிரிவின் தீவிரவாத தலைவர் மொக்டடா அல் ஸாடர் அல் அஸ்கரி மசூதி உடைக்கப்பட்டதற்கு கடும் கோபம் கொண்டு பேசியபோது.

திருத்தம்: 75 ஷியாக்கள் ஈராக் ஷியா மசூதி அருகே கொல்லப்பட்டனர்

சுன்னி முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாதிகள் ஷியாமசூதி அருகே வெடித்த டிரக் பாமில் 75 பேர் கொல்லப்பட்டனர். 190 பேர் படுகாயமடைந்தனர்.

Baghdad truck bomb kills dozens

The prayer hall of the al-Khilani mosque was destroyed
At least 75 people have been killed and another 190 injured in a truck bomb attack near a Shia mosque in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

The massive explosion in the busy Sinak commercial district destroyed part of the al-Khilani mosque and sent large clouds of black smoke into the air.

It was the latest in a series of recent attacks on Shia and Sunni mosques.

The bombing came as US forces began a major offensive against militants linked to al-Qaeda north of Baghdad.

Around 10,000 troops are taking part in Operation Arrowhead Ripper in and around the city of Baquba in Diyala province, a centre of the Sunni Arab insurgency.

The US military says 22 militants have been killed, but local officials say there have also been civilian deaths.

'Sick souls'

The explosion in Baghdad rocked the centre of the city and sent a big cloud of black smoke into the sky.



The bomb, reportedly packed into a truck parked outside the al-Khilani mosque, went off at a particularly busy time of the day. There were traffic jams leading up to a nearby checkpoint.

Witnesses said the effect was devastating, with the mosque's prayer hall being destroyed and several vehicles being set on fire.

The mosque's imam, Sheikh Saleh al-Haidari, said the blast had hit worshippers as they left afternoon prayers.

"This attack was planned and carried out by sick souls, damaging the mosque's outer wall and collapsing my office and the room above it," he told the Associated Press.

[The bombing] scarred the beautiful face of Baghdad by destroying the religious landmarks it has known over the centuries

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki

"There are number of bodies being pulled from the rubble and a number of worshippers were killed or injured."

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki condemned the bombing and called for national unity.

"Once again the groups of conspiracy, terror and takfir [Sunni extremism] have violated the sanctity of houses of God and spilled the blood of innocent people," he said.

"[The bombing] scarred the beautiful face of Baghdad by destroying the religious landmarks it has known over the centuries."

The attack was the bloodiest in Baghdad since a four-day curfew was lifted on Sunday following the bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra, one of the most revered sites in Shia Islam.

Since then, there have been a number of reprisal explosions at Sunni mosques in Baghdad and the south.

Night-time assault

North of Baghdad, US and Iraqi troops are continuing to conduct a major offensive to drive out militants linked to al-Qaeda.

Operation Arrowhead Ripper started overnight on Tuesday with a ground and air assault to secure the city of Baquba, a centre of the Sunni Arab insurgency.



The operation's commander, US Brig-Gen Mick Bednarek, told the BBC that the aim was to eliminate the insurgents and bring them to justice.

He said the US military did not want to simply push them to another part of Iraq.

"We see the insurgency migrate," he told the World Service Newshour programme.

"Many of them have come to Diyala province and the acts of violence - horrific, terrible events against the Iraqi people, their families, security forces etc here in the province - warranted an increase in combat operations and focus by both the Iraqi security forces and the coalition."

In other violence, police in the southern city of Nasiriya said at least 35 people were killed during two days of fighting between Iraqi security forces and Shia militiamen loyal to the cleric Moqtada Sadr.

ஈராக்கில் ஷியா மசூதிக்கு அருகே வெடித்த குண்டில் 22 பேர் பலி

சுன்னி பிரிவினர் தொடர்ந்து ஷியா பிரிவினரை தாக்கி வருகிறார்கள். சதாம் உசேனின் ஆட்சி இறங்கியதிலிருந்து சுன்னி பிரிவினர் அதிகாரம் இழந்து ஷியா பிரிவினரிடம் சென்றதால் அல்குவேதா ஆதரவாளர்கள் அதிகமாகி ஷியா பிரிவினரை தொடர்ந்து தாக்கி வருகிறார்கள்.

Car bombing in Baghdad kills 22
By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer
12 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A car bomb struck near a Shiite mosque in a busy commercial district Tuesday in Baghdad, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 50, police said.

The thunderous explosion, which occurred just before 2 p.m., sent smoke billowing over concrete buildings two days after the expiration of a curfew aimed at preventing retaliatory violence after last week's bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra.

Gunfire erupted shortly after the blast, which a police officer said went off near the Khillani mosque in the commercial area of Sinak.

Police and hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, gave the casualty toll as at least 22 people killed and 75 wounded.

It was not the first time the Sinak area has been hit. A suicide car bomber killed at least 21 people there on May 28.