Sunni Mosque Bombing in Iraq Kills Eight

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A car bomb killed at least eight people Friday outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad and gunmen abducted a Sunni cleric, raising sectarian tensions as the election commission gave the final go-ahead for talks to begin in earnest on a new government.

At least 21 people were injured, according to Dr. Muhannad Jawad of Yarmouk General Hospital. Pools of blood in the street indicated that most of the dead were outside the mosque.

An Associated Press photographer saw two bystanders gunned down by the masked men, one of whom held a pistol to the head of a woman. The photographer fled, but police later said the woman was killed and two men were wounded.

"Some worshippers were leaving and others were praying inside when the explosion blasted glass all over us," he said. "Smoke filled the mosque. Outside we were shocked to see so many wounded people and cars on fire."

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[Javaman]

1. nope no civil war here, move along citizen...n/t

[maxsolomon]

2. couldn't we have got to this same point cheaper?

they overscoped this project.