Close Shia militia kills dozens in Baghdad by Sunday 09 July 2006 10:44 AM GMT Sectarian attacks have continued in Iraq At least 41 people have been killed at a fake checkpoint set up by Shia militia members in a predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, police said. The victims were gathered together, Sunnis were then separated according to the names on their identity cards and killed after about an hour, said Maitham Abdul-Razzaq, an Iraqi police lieutenant. An Iraqi interior ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, said Shia militiamen wearing masks and black uniforms also roamed through the area, grabbing people from the street. An imam at a local mosque told Aljazeera that the number killed could be as high as 50. Police were searching for more victims reportedly left dumped in the streets. The attack was apparently in retaliation for the car bombing the night before of a local Shia mosque that left two dead. US and Iraqi forces sealed off the area and began searching for the attackers, Abdul-Razzaq said. Salam Zikam Ali al-Zubaie, the Iraqi deputy prime minister, called the attack "a real and ugly massacre". He said responsibility for the killings lay with Iraqi security forces that are widely believed to have been infiltrated by Shia militias. "There are officers who instead of being in charge should be questioned and referred to judicial authorities," al-Zubaie told Aljazeera. Further violence Clashes also broke out in northwestern Baghdad between US forces and members of the Mahdi army, the militia loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shia cleric, leaving three militia members dead, police said. In other violence on Sunday, an Iraqi army intelligence officer in the Shia holy city of Karbala was shot dead. Major Qahtan Adnan Abdul-Razzaq, an intelligence officer with the Iraqi army's al-Hussein Brigade, was shot dead after his car was intercepted in the centre of Karbala, 80km south of Baghdad, said Salim al-Abadi, a health official. Two policemen were also killed in gun attacks in eastern Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk, police said. Agencies By You can find this article at: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/30D6EB33-2471-4516-BB2C- 715AACFDEC56.htm Close ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/uTGrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
