Haider al-Suhail, a
tribal sheikh from Baghdad, welcomed the legalisation of gun stores.
Jamil Al-Jandabi, a prominent
tribal sheikh in Bait Marran, claimed the number of those arrested was 30.
They had been escorting the body of a prominent pro-government Sunni Muslim
tribal sheikh.
A Sunni Muslim
tribal sheikh and his son were also among those shot dead.
In separate incidents, gunmen blew up two houses of a
tribal Sheikh and a Colonel rank police officer in Nineveh but no human causalities were reported.
In Mosul, four police and four gunmen died in clashes, and gunmen also shot dead a
tribal sheikh in the northern city, AFP reported.
Muhammad Khamis, the nephew of power
tribal sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, who is a key supporter of Sunni anti-government protesters in Anbar province and also led the uprising against Al-Qaeda in the province from 2007, confirmed that two members of his tribe were killed.
"There are definitely [business] opportunities" if the regime falls, said one prominent
tribal Sheikh from rival tribe in Ramadi, whose many investment projects in Anbar province are linked to Gulf investors.
--6 Die in Clashes Between Police and
Tribal Sheikh Sadiq Al Ahmar
Earlier in Baghdad, a Shiite
tribal sheikh who was part of an effort to form an armed group to combat militias in his Baghdad neighbourhood was shot and killed, police said.
The car bomb in Najaf was detonated in Maidan Square where a large crowd gathered for the funeral procession of a
tribal sheikh - 100 yards from where Governor Adnan alZurufi and police chief Ghalib al-Jazaari were standing.
Al-Jadasi says the intended target of the attack was Zaid's father, also named Ali Bin Abood Al-Shareef, a
tribal sheikh with connections to the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah.
tribal sheikh - the leader of an Arab village or family