Sunni Mosque Burned Guerrillas Likely

Posted on 06/28/2006 by Juan

Sunni Mosque Burned

Guerrillas (likely Shiite militiamen) use mortar fire to destroy a Sunni mosque and burn down 20 shops in Shahraban near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday morning.

Reuters reports the civil war violence for Tuesday. There were bombings in Baghdad, Kirkuk and elsewhere, killing some 21 persons in iraq on Tuesday.

Al-Zaman runs an article claiming that 632 Palestinians have been killed or imprisoned in Iraq since the war started in spring 2003.

Iraq displaced children suffer health effects, mental problems from their plight.

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