MP urges security authorities to exert more effort to end violence

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: MP from the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) on Friday called on the security authorities to exert more effort, mainly on the intelligence information level, to avoid the increase in violent acts. “There are evil attempts to flare up sectarian conflict and to draw the country to a civil war,” Abdulhadi al-Hassani told IraqiNews.com news agency, describing these attempts as inhumanitarian and politically oriented. “Silence against these crimes by any body is a clear evidence of being involved in them,” he asserted. Six explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital on Wednesday (April 29). Two car bomb blasts rocked two outdoor souks (markets) in the predominantly Shiite eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City, killing nine people and wounding 72 others. Three other car bombs were defused inside the district. Two explosive vehicles also went off in the Shiite area of al-Hurriya, but the casualties could not have been known. In the Sunni district of al-Dora, five people were killed and eight others wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast. In Abu Dshir, an area of Shiite majority, security forces defused a car bomb. The Iraqi capital has witnessed escalated acts of violence since the end of last week as more than 130 people were killed and more than 150 others wounded in blasts conducted by suicide bombers in the cities of al-Karada and al-Kadhemiya. SH (S) 1