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U.N. calls for restraint in Iraq as 195 killed
Friday, 26 April 2013
Smoke billows from a destroyed makeshift camp at a public square in Hawija,
near Kirkuk, 170 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad, April 23,
2013. (Reuters)
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Al Arabiya with Agencies -
United Nations envoy Martin Kobler warned on Friday that Iraq is at a
“crossroads,” calling for restraint as a wave of violence has killed
more than 190 people in four days.
“I call on the conscience of
all religious and political leaders not to let anger win over peace,
and to use their wisdom, because the country is at a crossroads,” AFP
reported Kobler as saying in a statement.
Kobler spoke a day
after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that the country was in
danger of returning to “sectarian civil war.”
Maliki, from
Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority, called on people “to take the initiative,
and not be silent about those who want to take the country back to
sectarian civil war.”
Maliki’s statement came as residents of a
number of Sunni cities in Iraq have announced on Thursday the formation
of “military forces” to counter attack the Iraqi army and its crackdown
against protesters calling for Maliki – a Shiite – to step down, Al
Arabiya’s correspondent said.
The newly formed anti-government
tribal army in the western Sunni province of Anbar was deployed in a
protest square in Ramadi city after the withdrawal of the Iraqi army, Al
Arabiya reported on Friday.
The country was torn by Sunni-Shiite fighting in 2007-2008 in which thousands
of people were killed each month.
The latest trouble began on Tuesday when security forces moved in
against anti-government protesters near the northern Sunni Arab town of
Hawijah, sparking clashes that left 53 people dead.
Escalating violence
Bombs exploded at four Sunni mosques in and around Baghdad on Friday,
killing four people and wounding 50, an interior ministry official and
medics said.
The bombers struck after the main weekly prayers
as four days of violence that have killed more than 190 people raised
fears of a return to all-out sectarian conflict.
A bomb
exploded inside al-Kubaisi mosque in south Baghdad, killing four people
and wounding 36, while bombs near al-Shaheed Yusif and Malik al-Ashtar
mosques in the north of the capital wounded at least 11, the official
and medics said.
A fourth bomb went off near al-Razzaq mosque, north of Baghdad, wounding at
least three people.
Iraqi security forces began moving back into a northern town on Friday
after gunmen who seized it two days ago made an agreed withdrawal,
officials said.
The gunmen pulled out of Sulaiman Bek in
Salaheddin province early in the day under a deal worked out by tribal
chiefs and government officials, local official Shalal Abdul Baban and
municipal council deputy chief Ahmed Aziz told AFP.
The gunmen
swarmed into the predominantly Sunni Turkmen town on Wednesday after
deadly clashes with the security forces, who pulled back in the face of
the offensive as residents fled.
Army Staff General Ali Ghaidan Majeed told AFP on Thursday that the gunmen had
been given 48 hours to withdraw or face attack.
Majeed said at the time that intelligence information indicated there
were about 175 gunmen in Sulaiman Bek -- 25 allegedly from Al-Qaeda, and
150 from the Naqshbandiya Army, another Sunni militant group.
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