Sunnis condemn U.S. military attack

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's influential Association of Muslim Scholars and the country's largest Sunni Arab political party on Saturday condemned a deadly U.S. military attack they say killed civilians. Separately, a suicide car bomb struck near a Shiite shrine, killing eight people.

The U.S. command said Friday's raid and airstrike killed 20 insurgents, but the association and the Iraqi Islamic Party joined a village mayor who alleged that the attack killed at least 19 civilians, including women and children.

On Saturday, about 1,000 residents of al-Ishaqi village in the volatile province of Salahuddin held a funeral for the 19 dead, shouting slogans such as "Down with the occupiers," "Long live the resistance," and "There is no God but Allah."

Also Saturday, a suicide car bomb exploded outside of the Al-Abbas shrine in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, killing eight, said Rahman Meshawi, the city's police spokesman.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[maddezmom]

1. 16 killed in Iraq attacks, including suicide bomb at shrine

KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide car bomb has killed at least six people and wounded dozens more close to one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines in the central city of Karbala.

Elsewhere, sectarian and insurgent attacks claimed 10 more lives.

Salim Kadhim, spokesman for Karbala's health department, said that six men had been killed and 47 people wounded -- including two women and a child -- in the car bombing, according to an initial toll.

The bomber was also killed, he said, citing witnesses who said that traffic policeman Mohammed Salem had asked a motorist who parked in a crowded shopping street to move on and was ripped apart when the car detonated.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061209/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest_061209124409

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2. Photos of the dead "terrorists" here. * Graphic*

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