BAGHDAD, Iraq: Marajay, Ayaat, leaders and various organizations from Iraq, Iran, Holland, Pakistan, Finland and Lebanon have severely condemned a bloody wave of suicide car bombings and shootings in Iraq on Wednesday in which more than 153 innocent Iraqis were martyred.

Iraq’s and Iran’s Marajay namely Ayatullah Sayyed Ali As-Sistani, Ayatullah Said Al-Hakim, Ayatullah Ishaq Al-Fayadh, Ayatullah Bashir An-Najafi, Ayatullah Abu`l Qassem Al-Kaukabi, Ayatullah Sadeq Ash-Shirazi, leaders namely SCIRI chairman Sayyed Abdulaziz Al-Hakim, head of Pakistani Shias and chief of Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya (TNFJ) Sayyed Hamid Moosavi, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jafari, Shahid Al-Mehrab organization, Sayyed Muhammad Bahr`ol Uloom, Ansar Shaheed Al-Mehrab Association Finland, Najaf Hauzah scholars and Assembly of Iraqi Organizations in Holland flayed the attacks.

They urged Iraqis to remain united in order to thwart conspiracies aimed at creating rift among Iraqis. The carnage came as Iraqi leaders announced the completion of a draft constitution to be put to a referendum in mid-October after weeks of tortuous negotiations.

The bloodiest strike came in Kadhimiyah, where at least 112 people were martyred by a suicide car bomber, many of them day laborers who had gathered at dawn in the hope of employment.

Kadhimiyah houses the holy shrines of holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his pure progeny)’s seventh and ninth infallible successors Al-Imam Mousa bin Jafar Al-Kadhim (peace be upon him) and his grandson Al-Imam Muhammad Taqi Al-Jawad (peace be upon him).

At least 24 other people were killed in nine other suicide car bombings, an interior ministry official said. Before dawn, another 17 civilians were rounded up Taji north of Baghdad and executed in a main square.
Zarqawi's group claimed the Baghdad attacks, saying they were in revenge for a US-Iraqi crackdown on the northern town of Tal Afar near the Syrian border.

Witnesses said, construction workers from southern Iraq had crowded a square in Kadhimiyah when the bomber pulled up in a car, saying he wanted to hire laborers.
Late Wednesday, at least two Iraqis were martyred and more than 50 wounded when a market was hit by mortar fire in Al-Madain.

As many as 10 explosions ripped the Iraqi capital Wednesday, beginning with a huge suicide car bombing that shattered the morning calm in a heavily Shiite northern Baghdad district, targeting laborers gathered to find work for the day. At least 88 people were killed and 227 wounded in that attack alone.