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Shiite militias destroyed 5 Sunni mosques near Baghdad: sources

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Shiite Popular Mobilization militia had exploded 5 mosques in 12 hours in al-Karmah district west of Baghdad, an Iraqi source told Zaman al-Wasl.

Al-Karmah district which includes the area of Abu Ghraib, is considered one of the first areas that witnessed the military operations against the US forces after 2003.

The destroyed mosques were grand mosque of al-Karmah, Ibrahim al-Hasoun mosque, Nabi Allah Yusef mosque, Ibrahim al-Ahmad mosque, and Mohammad al-Hadhour mosque.

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq announced that the Popular Mobilization militia also burnt the citizenship and civil status government office in the middle of al-Karmah.

Al-Karmah is an Iraqi city in Anbar province and it is inhabited by 95 thousand persons and it is approximately 16 kilometers away from Fallujah.

In a not unlikely context, the official spokesperson of the Popular Mobilization Forces, or al-Hashed al-Sha'bie, Karim al-Nuri said that what is said about the role of the leader of the al-Quds forces in the Iranian revolutionary guard, the Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani has been exaggerated.

He added in a televised press release that “Soleimani is working as a military advisor the same as the 4 thousand American advisors who are working in Iraq.”

Media reports spoke of the presence of Iranian forces in the battle in Fallujah, and revealed Soleimani’s presence in the command operation room.

Pages on social media websites supporting the Popular Mobilization militia broadcasted images showing a meeting between the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Soleimani on the edges of Fallujah, and this is after militia al-Nujaba militia broadcasted two pictures showing Soleimani in the militia’s command operation room in the presence of a number of the militia’s leaders. (Translation by Rana Abdul)

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