U.N. council condemns "terrorist attacks" in Iraq - No mention of Shock and Awe

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council condemned on Thursday "terrorist attacks" in Iraq and called for a halt to the "transit of terrorists" in and out of Iraq and the supply of arms and money to these groups.

An insurgency by minority Sunnis erupted in Iraq soon after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 ousted Saddam Hussein and allowed majority Shi'ites to assume power for the first time in Iraq.

But the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra a year ago -- that Iraqi officials blamed on Sunni al Qaeda -- unleashed a wave of sectarian violence that has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

"The members of the Security Council are following with concern the situation in Iraq and condemn all terrorist attacks," the council said in a statement read by Slovakian Ambassador Peter Burian, the body's president for February, adding that the council urged an end to violence in Iraq.