By NNN-KUNA
Baghdad : Gunmen suspected of being loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr sealed off a mosque in a Baghdad district on Saturday where an official was attending a religious ceremony, official sources said.
The sources said Muwaffaq Al-Rubei’ee, the national security advisor of the government, was “stranded” at Al-Jawadain Mosque in Al-Shu’la northwest of Baghdad after it was surrounded by the armed men. Simultaneously, the district was also besieged by Iraqi government troops and American troops.
It was not clear why the gunmen, suspected of being members of Al-Mahdi militia of the radical Shiite leader, took the action against the senior official.
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