BAGHDAD — Gunmen bent on revenge burned mosques and homes in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad on Friday as Iraq’s leaders pleaded for calm, a day after the worst bomb attack since the U.S. invasion. Some 30 people were killed, police said, as suspected Shi’ite militiamen rampaged for hours, untroubled by a curfew enforced in the capital by U.S. and Iraqi forces after bombs killed 202 people in the Shi’ite stronghold of Sadr City. Four mosques and several houses were burned in a small Sunni part of the mainly Shi’ite Hurriya area in northwest Baghdad, Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Salem al-Zobaie told Reuters. One witness said 14 people were killed in his mosque during Friday prayers: ‘It was attacked by rocket-propelled grenades,’ university teacher Imad al-Din al-Hashemi said. ‘When the gunmen moved on to attack another mosque, we evacuated the wounded.’ The White House called the violence a ‘brazen effort to topple a democratically elected government’. The U.S. military said it sent no troops to Hurriya but that Iraqi police were on hand. Many police units are close to Shi’ite militia groups. It was the second daylight raid by guerrillas in two days. With the […]