By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
A Baghdad municipality worker cleans, while people and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. A coordinated wave of bombings tore through Shiite Muslim areas in and around the Iraqi capital early Wednesday, killing scores and wounding many more, officials said. The blasts, which came in quick succession, targeted residents out shopping and on their way to work. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister says his government is on high alert ahead of a possible military strike on neighboring Syria.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made the comments during a weekly televised address Wednesday that mainly focused on the civil war in the neighboring country.
He says Iraqi security forces and other government institutions are on high alert to protect against any domestic consequences of a possible Western-led military action in Syria.
Iraq’s government has an official neutral stance on the civil war raging across its border and has long called for a negotiated political settlement to the conflict.
