Da The Daily Star del 10/07/2006
Originale su http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&a...

Gunmen slaughter 41 Sunnis in Baghdad

Bombs kill 17 at shiite mosque

Suspected Shiite gunmen went on a rampage in western Baghdad on Sunday, pulling Sunnis from cars and off the street and killing at least 41 people as hard-line cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for an emergency parliamentary session. In yet another serious crime laid at US troops' door in recent weeks, five soldiers were charged in a rape and multiple murder case, as documents showed the rape victim was a minor aged just 14, and not over 20 as US officials had claimed.

As evening fell, two car bombs struck Al-Timim Shiite Mosque in Baghdad, killing 17 people and wounding 38.

Describing the rampage, the Interior Ministry said the gunmen pulled the victims from cars at fake police checkpoints, apparently in retaliation for a car bomb at a nearby Shiite mosque that killed three people on Saturday.

Police and Sunni politicians blamed rogue police commandos and Sadr's Mehdi Army militia for the killings, but officials from the movement denied any involvement.

In a statement released by his office, Sadr urged Parliament to meet to "halt the Western scheme that aims to foment civil war between the brothers."

He called on Shiites and Sunnis to "put our hands together for the sake of Iraq's independence and stability."

Police and Interior Ministry sources said Shiite gunmen moved through the Jihad district, checking identity papers for typically Sunni names.

An Interior Ministry official said that the gunmen roamed the neighborhood, abducting Sunnis off the street. Their bodies were later dumped on streets of the district.

One unidentified witness said that gunmen also "went into certain Sunni homes and killed everyone inside."

A senior Shiite politician said Mehdi Army fighters from eastern Baghdad had moved into Jihad on Sunday but insisted they were only taking on Sunni militants responsible for killing Shiites: "There are many terrorist groups in Jihad who are killing Shiite families so they went to fight them," he said.

Iraqi forces imposed a curfew in Jihad after the shootings and government leaders urged calm.

President Jalal Talabani called on Iraqis to cling to national unity and "not be provoked by acts of violence that some want to look sectarian."

"These killings reveal the helplessness of the government in disbanding the militias," said Adnan al-Dulaimi, a senior Sunni leader.

Medical staff at west Baghdad's main hospital said they had received 29 bodies from Jihad, overwhelming their morgue. There were reports of more bodies lying in the streets, they said.

A few kilometers from Jihad, Reuters staff in Shula, a mainly Shiite island in Sunni west Baghdad, said Mehdi militiamen blocked streets with burning tires and told residents to stay indoors, apparently fearing reprisal attacks.

Iraqis of all denominations have, however, been united in condemning American soldiers involved in a rape and murder case that has provoked calls for a US withdrawal.

The US military said Sunday it had charged five more soldiers in connection with the rape and murder of an Iraqi woman and the killing of three of her family members on March 12 south of Baghdad.

US court documents gave the raped daughter's estimated age as 25, though US military officials in Iraq say their documents have her as 20.

But her identity card and a copy of her death certificate show she was just 14.

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