BAGHDAD — Iraq’s top leadership called Friday for a review of government security measures after two suicide attacks killed about 60 people this week in the Baghdad area.
A statement on the website of Iraq’s presidency council, which includes the national president and the two vice presidents, said the attacks “represent a grave deterioration in the security situation” after weeks of relative calm.
The statement said the council, which has representatives of the Shiite, Sunni and Kurd ish communities, will ask Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to summon top security officials to discuss how the attacks were carried out and measures to prevent more in the future.
On Sunday a suicide attacker killed 30 people near the Baghdad police academy. Tuesday, another attacker struck Sunni and Shiite sheiks and military officers in west Baghdad, killing 33.
