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Attack on mosque meant to create sectarian strife { January 21 2005 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4E41D494-F911-4B0A-A3CC-A2AAF2C025AC.htm http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4E41D494-F911-4B0A-A3CC-A2AAF2C025AC.htm Deadly car bomb hits Baghdad mosque Friday 21 January 2005, 17:20 Makka Time, 14:20 GMT A car bomb has exploded outside a Shia mosque in Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 39, hospital officials said. The car exploded on Friday outside the al-Taf mosque in southwestern Baghdad, where Shia worshippers were celebrating one of Islam's most important holidays, the Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice. An Iraqi journalist, Ziyad al-Samarrai, told Aljazeera that many casualties had arrived at Yarmuk hospital. He said the remains of some victims had not been identified. US forces arrived at the scene two hours later and sealed off the area, al-Samarrai said. Increased attacks Attacks on Shia have increased in the run-up to the 30 January national elections. Senior Shia political leader Abdel Aziz Hakim - whose list is expected to dominate the elections - said the attack was the latest salvo by extremists trying to stoke civil war between Shiites and Sunnis. "It is quite obvious why there is such an attack. They are trying to create sectarian strife," Hakim told AFP. An audiotape released Thursday and purportedly recorded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's supremo in Iraq, took aim at the Shia community, accusing it of participating in the deadly November assault on Fallujah. "The battle of Falluja removed the ugly mask of the damned 'Rafidha' (a derogatory term for Shia), whose hatred (for Sunnis) was manifested in this battle," the audiotape said. "They participated in the military campaign for the battle against Fallujah with the blessing of the imam of infidelity and apostasy, Sistani," it added. Police station stormed Separately, a dozen armed fighters stormed a police station north of Baghdad on Friday and blew it up, police said. No one was hurt in the attack. Fighters burst into the station, which was nearly empty for Eid al-Adha, and placed explosives inside, said Iraqi police Captain Abd Allah al-Hiti. The blast destroyed the station in the centre of the town of Hit, about 165km northwest of Baghdad. Iraqi police and US-trained security forces have been frequent targets for fighters who consider them collaborators with the American forces.

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