Iraq launches investigation into Shia attack on Sunni mosque
Source: The Guardian
Saturday 23 August 2014 08.07 EDT
Iraq's parliamentary speaker has said an investigation is under way into an attack on a mosque that killed around 70 people and threatened moves to form a new government in the country struggling to contain the advance of the extremist Islamic State (Isis).
Salim al-Jabouri said on Saturday that a committee of security officials and MPs would announce its findings in two days after an investigation into the attack on Friday at a Sunni mosque in Diyala province, in eastern Iraq.
Doctors and police officers said 20 people were also wounded when worshippers were attacked with machine guns at the Musab bin Omair mosque, which Jabouri, a Sunni, described as "carnage".
Initial reports suggested Shia militiamen carried out the attack in revenge for the deaths of their fellow fighters, raising the threat of a further escalation of sectarian tensions. Ibrahim Aziz Ali, whose 25-year-old nephew was among those killed, told Agence France-Presse that he and other residents heard gunfire and rushed to the mosque, where they were fired on by snipers.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/23/iraq-shia-attack-sunni-mosque-james-foley-terrorist-attack
Clusterfuck Ongoing? Check. Initiated by Cheneybush? Check. Are we going back in with ground troops?
Are we going back in with ground troops? Are we going back in with ground troops? HELLO???
