Moqtada Al Sadr blames US death squads for carnage

Firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr speaks during Friday noon prayers in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad. Three suicide bombers, two of them disguised as women, killed at least 79 people and wounded 164 as worshippers left a popular Baghdad Shiite mosque after weekly prayers, in the second major attack on Iraq's majority community in as many days. [AFP]

In his Friday sermon, Moqtada Sadr blamed the US forces for Thursday's Najaf bombing. "This is not the first time that the occupation forces and their death squads have resorted to killings" the cleric said referring to the Najaf bombing.

Sadr also blamed the US-led coalition forces for Iraq's recent wave of communal violence, charging that the United States was "killing religious Shiite clerics in order to start a sectarian strife". Link