NCRI – Eyewitnesses disclosed that on the roof tops of some houses in the holy city of Karbala, during the bloody events of past week which has left more than 100 causalities, there were Iranian snipers shooting in the crowd, the Iraqi Rafiden television channel reported yesterday.
The report added that one of the commanders of the militias involved in Karbala is an Iranian national identified as Ali Shariat. He has personally overlooked the mortar fire on the holy shrine of Imam Hossein (Grand son of Prophet Mohammad and a Shiite leader) in the city. The news channel quoted Nouri al-Maliki as saying that the foreign countries behind the recent riots in Karbala had targeted the holy shrine.
A leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, Omar Abdulsatar said, “When some militia stirred violence in the southern provinces, Maliki acted swiftly. However, when militias destroyed Baghdad, the same government stood idly by and watched,” Rafidein added.
