Gunmen attack Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad

Team Infidel

Media: The Associated Press
Byline: n/a
Date: 12 September 2006


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen attacked a Shiite mosque in a town northeast of
Baghdad with mortars and assault rifles, killing seven people and wounding
three, police said Tuesday.

The attack occurred Monday at 9 p.m. in the town on Bani Saad at the
Huseiniyat Bani Saad mosque just south of Baqouba, located 60 kilometers (35
miles) northeast of Baghdad, the press office of the Diyala provincial
police said.

Bani Saad is 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baqouba and police said the
attack began when six mortar rounds were fired at the mosque, followed by an
assault. The gunmen then planted explosives around the mosque and detonated
them, damaging the structure, police said. No other details were available.

The mosque is located in the middle of the town's open-air market area and
is the only Shiite mosque in the town.

The attack occurred in a mixed but volatile region that in recent months has
seen horrific acts of sectarian violence. Jordanian born-terrorist
mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Sunni extremist who long sought to start
a sectarian war in Iraq, was killed just outside Baqouba in an American
airstrike on June 7.