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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Tension in Baghdad after arrest of Sunni leader By SINAN SALAHEDDIN,Associated Press Writer AP - 51 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops backed by armored vehicles patrolled deserted streets of a central Baghdad neighborhood Sunday after the arrest of a Sunni leader who had broken with al-Qaida sparked a gunfight that killed four people and wounded 15. ADVERTISEMENT A police official said five Iraqi soldiers were missing after the fighting, which erupted when police and soldiers arrested Adil al-Mashhadani, the head of an Awakening Council group in Fadhil, a Sunni enclave on the east bank of the Tigris River. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release the information. Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq, are Sunni security volunteers who broke with al-Qaida and joined forces with the Americans to drive al-Qaida from their areas. The rise of the Awakening Councils is considered a key move in turning the tide against the Sunni insurgency. But Shiite political leaders have never fully trusted the Awakening Groups, many of whom were ex-insurgents. How the Shiite-led government deals with the Sunni security volunteers is widely seen as a test of its ability to win the loyalty of disaffected Sunnis _ an essential step in forging a lasting peace in Iraq. Al-Mashhadani was arrested along with an aide for alleged terrorist activity, Iraqi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said without elaborating. He said the troops had a warrant issued by an Iraqi judge. About a half hour after the arrest, heavy gunfire broke out in Fadhil, sending residents fleeing the streets, witnesses said. The fighting tapered off about two hours later. The dead included three civilians and a policeman, according to police and hospital officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to release information to media. Iraqi soldiers and police stood guard Sunday morning along deserted streets and public squares. Empty bullet casings littered the ground, Associated Press Television News video showed. Some Awakening Council leaders in other parts of Baghdad _ already upset over delays in their pay _ expressed fears that the arrest could signal the start of a crackdown by the Shiite-led government. "All of us are in danger and I prefer to keep silent," said Sheik Mustafa Kamil Shebib, leader of the Awakening Council in south Baghdad's Dora area. "We hope the government will not arrest any member until it is proved he made mistakes." A U.S. military spokesman, Col. Bill Buckner, confirmed the arrest and said the move was not directed at the Awakening Council. Last October, the Iraqi government assumed responsibility for paying the more than 90,000 security volunteers. The Iraqi government is to start paying the last 10,000 volunteers still on the U.S. payroll on April 1. On Saturday, however, leaders of several Awakening Council groups complained that the government has not paid them in months, with some threatening to quit the movement. "We have not received our salaries in two months," said Ahmed Suleiman al-Jubouri, a leader of a group that mans checkpoints in south Baghdad. "We will wait until the end of April, and if the government does not pay us our salaries, then we will abandon our work." Buckner said the new budget law shifted funding for the volunteers to the Interior Ministry, which was still refining its procedures. He said payments would resume this week. Under pressure from the U.S., the government agreed to accept 20,000 of the fighters into the police or army and continue paying the rest until they could find them civilian jobs. But U.S. officials say the process has been slowed because the drop in world oil prices has cut deeply into the government's revenues, prompting a freeze on army and police recruiting. Also Sunday, a roadside bomb exploded near a security patrol in the southern city of Basra, killing one person and wounding four, police said. Eight Iraqi policemen also were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police Brig. Gen. Burhan Tayeb Taha said. In Baghdad, another policeman was wounded Sunday morning by a roadside bomb in the Amiriyah area, another police officer said. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to release information. 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