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A resident of Hurriya, Imad al-Din al-Hashemi, said 14 people died in a mosque where he was praying at midday when it was attacked. He said he heard of 10 dead in another mosque.

"They attacked four mosques with rocket-propelled grenades and machinegun fire," said Hashemi, a university academic.

The interior ministry official said residents were appealing for firefighters and ambulances but the area was too dangerous for police to send reinforcements.

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Four mosques and some houses were burnt in the small Sunni part of Hurriya area in northwest Baghdad, Deputy Prime Minister Salem Al Zubaie said on Friday.

Some 32 people were killed, police said, in attacks on the area by suspected Shiite militiamen, untroubled by a curfew enforced after 202 died in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City. A witness to Friday's attacks in Hurriya, university teacher Imad Al Deen Al Hashemi, said three women, three children and two men were badly burned but survived when gunmen threw petrol into their homes and set fire to the buildings.

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Armed men rampaged through a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shia district of Baghdad on Friday, killing up to 30 people and setting mosques and homes ablaze, police said.

Residents in the Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Hurriya district in northwestern Baghdad also spoke of two dozen or more dead, many of them worshippers.

The assailants attacked four Sunni mosques with rocket-propelled grenades, a security official said.

The onslaught was in apparent reprisal for Thursday's blasts that killed more than 200 people in Baghdad's Sadr City, a stronghold of Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia.

Earlier in the day, three mortar rounds exploded near the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad, wounding a guard.

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A series of car bombs killed more than 200 people in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City on Thursday and, in apparent retaliation, Shiite militiamen attacked Sunni mosques in Baghdad and Baquba on Friday. Four of the mosques were in the mixed Baghdad neighborhood of Hurriya, according to Iraqi officials.

But the United States military said on Saturday that Iraqi soldiers patrolling the Hurriya neighborhood found only one mosque that had been damaged during Friday’s violence.

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Okay the following is from one of our enemy's propaganda sites. Could this be the six that was suppose to be burned to death in that unconfirmed report?

Names of six Iranian Revolutionary Guard agents killed in Baghdad’s "Madinat as-Sadr" car bombings on Thursday.

Names of six Iranian Revolutionary Guard agents killed in Baghdad "Madinat as-Sadr" car bombings on Thursday published.

In a dispatch posted at 1:42pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that on Saturday the Iranian embassy in Baghdad received the bodies of six Iranian members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who were secretly working in Iraq with the Shi'i sectarian militias and were killed in the car bombings of Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in the Madinat Saddam area on Thursday night. The Baghdad area of Madinat Saddam was nicknamed "Madinat as-Sadr" after the US occupation of Iraq in 2003.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the six bodies of the Iranian agents were received by Mujtabi Sari Nida, an employee of the Iranian embassy, from al-Kindi Hospital where they had been taken initially after the Resistance attack.

The Iranian regime claimed that the six Revolutionary Guards were present among the Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen just as "ordinary citizens" on "pilgrimage" to the Shi'i al-Kazimiyah mosque.

The Iranian agents were killed in a part of Baghdad some 30km from the al-Kazimiyah mosque, the correspondent pointed out, noting that the area was, however, a stronghold for the Jaysh al-Mahdi and Badr Brigade Shi'i sectarian militias which receive support from Iran and the United States.

The following are the names of the six Iranian "Revolutionary Guards" killed in the Thursday car bomb attacks:

'Ali Shamkhani, killed by bleeding in the brain;
Baqir Dhu al-Qadr Rida, killed by severe wounds to the chest and back;
Muhammad Husayni, burned to death;
Ramadan Fayruzandah, died of a crushed skull and burns;
Qasim Taskhiri Rida Agha (passport NO. 01459872 from Karmanshahr, Iran) had his leg blown off and suffered a wound to the neck;
'Ali Farhad Salmani, died of a severe lateral cut on his chest and from having both legs blown off.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported an informed source as saying that 30 commanders of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia were killed in the Thursday attacks, among them Husayn Fattumah, who carried the name of his mother because he was a marked man after abducting three Sunni girls from a Qur’an memorization school on Palestine Street.

The regional hegemonic regime in Iran is seeking to secure its hold in Iraq by using Shi'i sectarian leaders and organizations in order to try to step into the shoes of the American occupation authorities whose grip on the country has been weakened by three years of increasingly severe Resistance attacks. To forestall Iran’s attempt to replace America as colonial power in Iraq, the Iraqi Resistance continues its offensive against pro-Iranian as well as US and pro-US groups and facilities.

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