Violence hits Iraq on Muslim day of prayer

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD - Violence washed over Iraq on Friday, the weekly Muslim day of rest and prayer, with at least four people killed and more than a dozen wounded in shootings and bombings, security sources said.


A member of the city council and his wife were killed in a car bombing in the troubled city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, the site of a February bomb attack against a reverred Shia shrine that sparked nationwide civil strife.

Police said the car exploded near the home of Ahmed Ali Yassin, whose brother chairs Samarra city council, killing him and his wife, and leaving four of their relatives wounded.

In Baghdad, where a four-hour daytime curfew is enforced to guard against Friday attacks, at least six people were wounded when a bomb exploded near the national theatre in the Karrada district, interior ministry sources said.

more:http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/December/focusoniraq_December112.xml§ion=focusoniraq

[rodemocrat]

1. Not news

A day of random killings in Baghdad is not news. A day of peace in Baghdad would be.

[maddezmom]

2. Welcome to DU

You might find the ignore thread feature useful. :hi:

[Tight_rope]

3. Violence hits Iraq everyday...this ain't news!