Show of force impressing the chest near the Green Zone

Show of force impressing the chest near the Green Zone

2016-02-29

A suicide attack at the funeral of a relative of a leading Shiite crowd in the convoy of Diyala kills about 40 people, including local leaders of the armed organization.

Baghdad called Sadr's movement in Iraq leader Moqtada al-Sadr, residents of the capital to demonstrate next Friday, at the entrances to the Green Zone in central Baghdad, which houses the government and parliament of foreign diplomatic missions, after 3 days of threatening to storm the area.

The call comes amid an escalation of the risk of terrorist operations against irregular forces and Shiite crowd as it resulted in a new suicide Monday attack in Diyala killed at least 40 people, including local leaders in the crowd, who were walking in the funeral of one of those killed in the terrorist attack occurred Sunday procession.

Sadr said in a statement issued by his office Monday that "after having touched you in Tahrir Square (in Baghdad) organized and unified, up the national sentiment, I invite you once again especially the inhabitants of Baghdad from all regions of the mass demonstration, at the entrances to the Green Zone."

The demonstrators demanded the chest Balazam as "peaceful", adding that "all demonstrations in Baghdad and the provinces will be at the same time and the time to reach the message is clear to all."

The invitation Moqtada al-Sadr to protest at the entrances to the Green Zone after 3 days of threatening to storm the area, during a speech last Friday, in front of a crowd of his followers in central Baghdad, which drew a direct criticism of Haider Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, who in a speech Saturday in turn, stressed that " the political process can not be repaired and threatened the crowd and oppression, "in a veiled reference to the threat of al-Sadr.

For his part, honest he hinted, the coalition of state law, which belongs to him by al-Abadi Monday, his fears of the loose security situation in the case of multiple places to organize demonstrations in Baghdad, with the unstable security situation, experienced by the capital over the past two days showed.

He said we hinted that "the demonstration is a right guaranteed by a constitutional standpoint of all, it does not disrupt public order, especially as we pass through a security crisis and are faced with the organization of the Islamic state, and the fear of benefit parties that lie in wait for the political process," without naming or alluding to those parties.

On Monday, police sources and medical sources said that at least 40 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew an explosive vest at the funeral of a relative of a leading Shiite armed faction in Diyala province in eastern Iraq on Monday in an attack organization Islamic State claimed responsibility for it.

The attack took place in Miqdadiya, 80 km northeast of Baghdad. Security and police officials in Diyala said that six of the local leaders in the congregation of the popular crowd, which represents the umbrella of the Shiite armed groups were killed in the consolation.

The sources said that 58 other people were injured.

According to a statement posted on Twitter in the account for a website which is following the activities of the militants on the Internet that the Islamic state has claimed responsibility for the bombing.

It is likely to fuel the killing of leaders Alsth- four of them belong to the group League of the right and two to the Badr Organization sectarian tension in mixed religiously conservative.

He said security officials and witnesses said the situation was tense in Miqdadiya, though dozens of members of the armed Shi'ite factions were deployed in the streets while security forces were absent.

And it accused members of the armed Shiite factions attacking Sunni mosques and residents in Diyala after similar bombings in January, but the faction denied the allegations and blamed the Islamic state.

Iraqi officials declared victory against militants in Diyala year ago, but the Islamic state is still active.

The attack came the day after the deadliest bombing witnessed in the capital so far in 2016 occurred in an area predominantly Shi'ite Sunday.

The attack killed 65 civilians and wounded about 70 others in a suicide attack inside Maridi market in Sadr City, the stronghold of President of the followers of Moqtada al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad, and was preceded by two days a double suicide attack inside a Shi'ite mosque in the east of the capital district of Shula, killing 12 civilians and injured more than 35 injured .