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Attacks Across Baghdad Leave At Least 48 Dead, Scores Injured
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He said the recent attacks are likely to sour the already-tense relationship between Sadr City residents and the Iraqi soldiers deployed there.
"The security forces abuse residents," Masudi said, referring to what he described as heavy-handed tactics. "Usually residents accept these measures if they are the price of security."
Also Wednesday, five people were killed in the capital in a roadside bomb in the western district of Dora, police officials said.
Meanwhile, in Hurriyah, a neighborhood in western Baghdad, two car bombs killed two people and wounded eight civilians.
The spike in violence comes as American troops are closing small, inner-city outposts and retreating to large bases outside the cities in accordance with a bilateral security agreement that set a strict withdrawal timeline. Under the agreement, U.S. combat troops must leave urban areas by June 30.
Earlier in the day, a U.S. convoy came under grenade and small arms fire near Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Maj. Derrick Cheng, a U.S. military spokesman, said American soldiers opened fire on the assailants, killing two. One U.S. soldier was wounded.
The soldiers were providing micro-grants to business owners.
Special correspondent Zaid Sabah contributed to this report.
