BAGHDAD, Feb 24 (Reuters) - A curfew in Baghdad and calls for Muslim unity at Friday prayers across Iraq eased sectarian violence that has raised fears of civil war but, amid clashes after dark, police banned cars from the roads for another day.

Gunmen, some firing rockets, attacked Sunni mosques in two Baghdad districts, including the Sunnis' revered Abu Hanifa shrine, police said, adding that police and Iraqi troops repelled assailants who wore the black of Shi'ite militias.

Casualties would add to the 200 dead in Baghdad alone since reprisals against minority Sunni mosques began with a suspected al Qaeda bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on Wednesday pitching Iraq into its worst crisis since the U.S. invasion of 2003...http://tinyurl.com/hznmg
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