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Only Five People Killed in Iraq Bombings
[An Nahar] Bombings north of Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Saturday killed five people, including a police officer, police and doctors said, a day after attacks across the country left 23 dead. A roadside kaboom killed four people west of the northern city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... while another bomb in Tikrit, also north of the Iraqi capital, killed a police officer and maimed two others. The attacks come a day after 23 people died in a string of attacks across the country, including the bombing of a Shiite religious hall. Iraq is grappling with a protracted political standoff within its national unity government and months-long protests among its Sunni Arab minority. Analysts and diplomats worry that the standoff is unlikely to be resolved at least until general elections due next year. Posted by: Fred 2013-07-07 |
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