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Attack on Iraqi Funeral Kills at Least 42
Bodies arrive at a morgue in Muqdadiyah, north of Baghdad, after a funeral procession for a Shiite politician's relative was attacked.
(By Mohammed Adnan -- Associated Press)
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Iraqi and U.S. forces escorted the rest of the convoy to the capital as other Iraqi troops searched for the attackers, Jihad said.
The Baiji refinery, the largest in Iraq, was recently closed for 10 days after insurgents threatened fuel tanker drivers. Insurgents have stepped up their assault on the oil infrastructure in recent weeks, apparently seeking to take advantage of unpopular fuel price increases imposed by the government.
Elsewhere in Iraq, police and Western officials said authorities were looking for Interior Minister Bayan Jabr's sister, who was kidnapped Tuesday.
The al-Jazeera television network said a previously unknown group, al-Thar Battalion -- Arabic for "revenge" -- had asserted responsibility for the abduction, according to the Associated Press. The group demanded the release of all women detainees, a halt to all raids by the Interior Ministry and a decrease in fuel prices.
In Baghdad, bombings in front of a street market in the Dora neighborhood and near the district police headquarters in Kadhimiyah killed eight people and wounded 41, police said.
Gunmen shot and killed Rahim Ali, the Oil Ministry's director of accounting, and his son while they were driving to work in Baghdad's Amiriyah district Wednesday morning, said Jihad, the ministry's spokesman.
In Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, a roadside bomb detonated near the police academy, destroying a Humvee and killing two civilians, police Col. Jasim Abdullah Kanno said.
The attacks drew the fury of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the leading Shiite cleric in the country, who issued a statement demanding that the government and religious authorities fight against the "bloodshed of innocents."
"The patience of the Iraqi people is about to run out, and that is not acceptable by God," Sistani was quoted as saying.
Shammari reported from Muqdadiyah. Special correspondents Salih Saif Aldin in Baiji and K.I. Ibrahim and Naseer Nouri in Baghdad contributed to this report.
