(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Plots are underway to destabilize Baghdad and spread the protests to the Iraqi capital, Iraq's satellite television network al-Anwar-II reported.
The Baathist groups and remnants of the former Iraqi regime as well as Wahhabi elements are carrying out terrorist attacks and targeting Iraqi citizens and security forces, the TV reported.
The terrorists target the Iraqi citizens and security forces by guns which are equipped with silencer in Baghdad's al-Seyedia district where both Sunni and Shiite Muslims reside.
The terrorists killed 10 citizens in al-Seyedia district yesterday, the Iraqi news website Nahrayn.net reported.
Last month, an Iraqi lawmaker said the Al-Qaeda terrorist group and the remnants of the former Baath regime are trying to undermine the Iraqi government.
"The Baathists and the al-Qaeda-affiliated individuals are trying to annul the counterterrorism laws in a bid to weaken the Iraqi government," member of the Iraqi Parliament Karim Alivi told FNA in Baghdad in January.
This plot aims to show that the Iraqi government cannot protect its citizens, he said, adding that if the Iraqi government had not implemented the counterterrorism act, the country would have entered a war which would be much difficult to end.
The Baathists and the al-Qaeda are trying to stir tension in the country and implement their terrorist plots by annulling the counterterrorism act, he reiterated.
"There are some plots underway now which are put into practice with the help of internal means," the Iraqi MP cautioned.
In December, Iraq's security forces foiled a foreign-led plot to topple Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's government.
Iraq's Arabic-language daily, al-Dastour, reported on December 30 that Baghdad has witnessed increased operations and presence of security forces in the last two days and all the military personnel have been called to stay on the alert for an unspecified period of time.
The security measures were intensified after a high-ranking Iraqi security official warned of an imminent coup d' 'tat against Maliki's government orchestrated by the spying agency of a regional Arab state.
"One of the regional states had worked out a coup d'état through talks with former Iraqi army officials and commanders but another regional country discovered the plot and informed Maliki through a secret message," he said, but refrained from naming any one of the two aforementioned countries.
The Iraqi security official said the conspirators wanted to occupy Baghdad first and then take the city's control through their secret agents.
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