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Baghdad blasts casualties up to 234
BAGDHAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Casualties from Friday's earlier five blasts that ripped through Baghdad rose to 54 deaths and 180 others wounded, a security source said on Friday.The blasts that targeted Shiite mosques left 54 people killed and 180 others wounded. The death toll in the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City alone reached 39 while the wounded 56,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Blasts in al-Amin area left eight killed and 23 wounded,' the source added. Baghdad had been hit by a series of attacks with car bombs and improvised explosive devices on Friday. The bombing attacks targeted four Shiite mosques and an outdoor souk (market) in different areas of the violence-swept capital city. The blasts come only four days after Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network top leaders Abu Ayub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as well as other key members of the armed group were killed in a security operation in the area of al-Tharthar, in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar. They also came in the heels of hectic security activity targeting AQI leaders in the provinces of Baghdad, Ninewa, Diala, al-Anbar and Kirkuk. The operations resulted in capturing or killing a number of AQI operatives, including Ahmed al-Obaidi, alias Abu Suhayb, the group's military commander for the provinces of Ninewa, Salah al-Din and Kirkuk, who was killed in Mosul. Posted by: Steve White 2010-04-24 |
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