Blast hits Sunni mosque as Maliki orders security overhaul
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Residents stand amid rubble at blast scene in Tuz Khormatu town in northern
Iraq May 21, 2013. (Reuters)
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Al Arabiya with agencies -
As Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a shakeup of senior
security officers on Tuesday after a spate of bombings killed more than
380 people this month, a car bomb detonated near a Sunni mosque in the
west of the capital, killing 11 people.
The blast, which took place in Abu Ghraib wounded 21 people, police said,
according to Reuters.
Earlier Tuesday evening, Maliki named Lieutenant Abdulamir Al-Shimari as head
of Baghdad’s Operations Command, after he sacked Staff Lieutenant
General Ahmed Hashem.
Maliki, “after consultation with security
officials, issues orders ... for changes in the operations commands and
commanders of divisions,” an Iraqi senior official told AFP on condition of
anonymity.
The shakeup comes a day after Maliki said he would change the country’s
security strategy as well as top personnel.
“We are about to make changes in the high and middle positions of those
responsible for security, and the security strategy,” Maliki said on
Monday.
Earlier Tuesday, several bomb blasts also killed at least 12 people in Iraq,
police said, a day after more than 70 died in
attacks on majority Shi’ites, stoking fears of all-out sectarian war
with minority Sunnis, Reuters reported.
More than 200 people have been killed in the past week as Sunni-Shi’ite
tensions, fuelled by the
civil war in neighboring Syria, threaten to plunge Iraq back into
communal bloodletting.
In Tuesday’s violence, three roadside
bombs exploded near a livestock market in the ethnically mixed city of
Kirkuk, killing six people and shredding the bodies of humans and
animals alike.
Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s
Sunnis, Shi’ites and Kurds have yet to find a
stable power-sharing deal and violence is again on the upswing.
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