In April 2006, three suicide bombers killed at least 69 people in an attack at the Buratha Mosque. al-Saghir accused Sunni politicians and clerics of waging "a campaign of distortions and lies against the mosque".Life in Iraq: Day at a glance, BBC, 2006-04-07 Two months later he was the target of another suicide bomber from al-Qaeda in Iraq, who killed 13 people when he blew himself up in the mosque.BOMB BLAST HITS MOSQUE , World News Australia, 2006-06-17, accessed on 2007-07-02
