Tight security measures in Mosul on Ashuraa

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Tight security measures were taken on Wednesday in some parts of Mosul city on the occasion of Ashuraa, the chief of the Ninewa police said. “Tight security measures were taken on Wednesday (Jan. 7) in Talafar, al-Hamadaniya districts and some parts of Mosul,” General Khaled Hussein al-Hamadani told IraqiNews.com news agency. Shiites commemorates on Muharram 10th, the killing of Imam Hussein Ibn Ali and his brothers and friends, killed in Karbala in the battle of Taf on Muharram 10, 61 (October 10, 680 AD on the Gregorian calendar). The battle of Taf in Karbala witnessed the killing of Imam al-Hussein, his brother, sons, nephews and friends – all numbering 72 – on the 10th of Muharram at the hands of the 30,000-man army of Yazid Ibn Muaawiya, the second caliph in the Umayyad Dynasty that ruled for more than 90 years. SH (P) 1