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Sunnis Close Mosques to Protest Killings
Children help remove religious books from a Shiite mosque in Baghdad after it was targeted by a car bomb. The blast killed at least two people and wounded five. (Reuters)
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Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick, meanwhile, told reporters during a World Economic Forum regional meeting in Jordan that Syria must pull its intelligence agents out of Lebanon and accused Iran of funneling "millions of dollars per month" to Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.
· An American soldier died in a vehicle crash following a bomb blast in central Iraq, the military said. More than half of the American military deaths in Iraq have been caused by insurgent bombs, the military said.
· Rockets hit the U.S. military-run Abu Ghraib prison compound, injuring five detainees, the military said. The prison, scene of a detainee abuse scandal, has been the target of repeated insurgent attacks.
· Shiite worshipers at some mosques in Iraq wiped their feet on U.S. and Israeli flags painted on the ground, heeding a request by radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr to protest alleged desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Agence France-Presse reported. About 2,000 people marched in Nasiriyah, south of Baghdad, in a related protest, the news agency said.
Special correspondents Naseer Nouri, Khalid Saffar and Omar Fekeiki in Baghdad and Salih Saif Aldin in central Iraq contributed to this report.
