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Mon, 05/23/2011 - 11:20
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Car Bomb Explodes in Eastern Baghdad
TEHRAN (FNA)- A car bomb rocked the Eastern district of Zayouna in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on Monday.
There are yet no reports on the number of casualties, but eye-witnesses said that ambulance sirens continued for several hours in the area.
The blast happened after seven concurrent bomb attacks shook different parts of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on Sunday, with most of the blasts targeting police officers or government officials.
According to security officials, the city was hit by at least seven deadly explosions between 8 a.m and 9:30 a.m. local time on Sunday. At least 16 people died in the blasts and more than 63 others were wounded.
A senior member of the Shiite Sadr Movement in Iraq took the US responsible for the Sunday bomb attacks.
"The US is directly involved in today's bombings in Baghdad, and it is responsible for these blasts," Abdolreza al-Fayyaz told FNA in Baghdad on Sunday.
He pointed to the deadline for the US military pullout from Iraq, and noted, "Deterioration of Iraq's political and security conditions just as the deadline for the US military presence in Iraq is nearing corroborates the claim that the US forces are directly or indirectly involved in these blasts."
The military agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 stipulates the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq by December 31, 2011 as a deadline.
Meantime, the US has pressed senior Iraqi officials to revise their decision on the US pullout and demand Washington to keep its troops in the country beyond their scheduled departure in the yearend.
But, Iraqi state officials as well as religious and political figures have all condemned the US attempts for extending the mission of its troops in the country.
Late in April, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced that Iraq no more needs the US forces to protect its internal security, and underlined that his government will not bow to the pressures exerted on Baghdad to accept an extended US military mission in the country.
There are yet no reports on the number of casualties, but eye-witnesses said that ambulance sirens continued for several hours in the area.
The blast happened after seven concurrent bomb attacks shook different parts of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on Sunday, with most of the blasts targeting police officers or government officials.
According to security officials, the city was hit by at least seven deadly explosions between 8 a.m and 9:30 a.m. local time on Sunday. At least 16 people died in the blasts and more than 63 others were wounded.
A senior member of the Shiite Sadr Movement in Iraq took the US responsible for the Sunday bomb attacks.
"The US is directly involved in today's bombings in Baghdad, and it is responsible for these blasts," Abdolreza al-Fayyaz told FNA in Baghdad on Sunday.
He pointed to the deadline for the US military pullout from Iraq, and noted, "Deterioration of Iraq's political and security conditions just as the deadline for the US military presence in Iraq is nearing corroborates the claim that the US forces are directly or indirectly involved in these blasts."
The military agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 stipulates the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq by December 31, 2011 as a deadline.
Meantime, the US has pressed senior Iraqi officials to revise their decision on the US pullout and demand Washington to keep its troops in the country beyond their scheduled departure in the yearend.
But, Iraqi state officials as well as religious and political figures have all condemned the US attempts for extending the mission of its troops in the country.
Late in April, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced that Iraq no more needs the US forces to protect its internal security, and underlined that his government will not bow to the pressures exerted on Baghdad to accept an extended US military mission in the country.
