Karbala shrine surrounded by unidentified gunmen

This is reported tonight, after the BBC report: Iraqi city cleared after clashes

With the “Green Zone” gov­ern­ment pol­icy to black­out the events of Kar­bala and to blur the mag­ni­tude of the dis­as­ter tak­ing place in the city, Alme­laf reported that Eye­wit­nesses say that the ele­ments of the “Mahdi Army” [] engaged in the fight­ing in the city of Kar­bala are not cit­i­zens of the city, and that they arrived from other provinces [later reported that Sadr fol­low­ers are calm­ing the peo­ple say­ing that they are not involved in the fight].

Also, Alme­laf said ear­lier that they are mem­bers of “Mahdi Army” [if they are!!!] using Amer­i­can weapons.

non14 con­firmed the report saying:

Kar­bala shrines sur­rounded by uniden­ti­fied gunmen

The group has tar­geted ser­vice facil­i­ties sur­round­ing the holy shrine burn­ing num­ber of cars, Shrine offi­cials say: “the group might demol­ish the shrine”.

Even Amer­i­can pro­pa­ganda Radio­sawa says:

It is not clear yet who is behind the clashes