In Iraq this weekend, fighting continued across the country. On Saturday at least 50 people died in including four government employees who were assassinated. At least another 22 died on Sunday. Much of the violence was seen as a response to Friday’s US raid on the prominent Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad that left as many as four people dead. The raid occurred during Friday prayers. The Abu Hanifa mosque is considered to be one of the holiest Sunni sites in the Middle East.