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Sunni shiite mosques are attacked in iraq { July 15 2006 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0607150262jul15,1,2244279.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0607150262jul15,1,2244279.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed Sunni, Shiite mosques are attacked in Iraq By Joshua Partlow and Saad Sarhan The Washington Post Published July 15, 2006 BAGHDAD -- Worshipers attending prayer services were the targets of bomb and mortar attacks Friday in the latest examples of the sectarian violence that has destabilized Iraq and left dozens of people dead in recent days. In the deadliest attack, two bombs planted at the entrance to the al-Kubaisi mosque in northern Baghdad exploded as Sunni Arab worshipers were leaving the building in the early afternoon. Many retired army officers who worked under former President Saddam Hussein attend the mosque. Witnesses said the blasts killed at least four people and destroyed cars parked nearby. Police told The Associated Press that as many as 14 people were killed and five injured. During the past month in Baghdad, the government has imposed an 11 a.m.-to-3 p.m. curfew on vehicle traffic in an attempt to reduce the number of attacks at times when people are visiting mosques. Earlier in the day, mortar rounds struck near a Shiite mosque in Balad Ruz, about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing two people and injuring five, according to Diyala provincial police. But at Shiite mosques in the southern holy city of Najaf, preachers focused not on the violence in Iraq but on the fighting that erupted between Israel and Lebanese radicals Wednesday, as well as Israel's incursions into the Gaza Strip. "Israel has proven by this act that it is a state that does not accept peaceful coexistence" with Arab countries, Sadr al-Din al-Qubanchi said in a sermon at Najaf's Fatimy mosque. "What is taking place is a declaration of war on a sovereign state and independent nation in Lebanon and an aggression on Gaza." The worshipers chanted in response: "No! No to Israel!" The powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr issued a statement Friday condemning what he called the "terrorist Zionist enemy." Elsewhere in Iraq, gunmen in three cars attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint at a bridge near the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 13 soldiers, said Iraqi army Capt. Farhad Mahmood Khudhir. Also Friday, Iraq's national wrestling team pulled out of a tournament in the United Arab Emirates after its coach was killed in an attack in Baghdad, sports reporter Sagban al-Rubaie said, acting as a spokesman for the team. The Sunni coach, Mohammed Karim Abid Sahib, was seized with one of his wrestlers as they left the sports center in the northern neighborhood of Kazamiyah, where the team was preparing for the tournament, The Associated Press reported. He was shot to death while trying to escape; the wrestler got away, according to police and wrestling officials. In another development, police found 12 bodies dumped in a grave in the northwestern city of Tal Afar and identified one of the victims as an Iraqi army soldier from Mosul, according to Capt. Hassan Hashim Mohammed of the Tal Afar police. Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune

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