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Suicide bomber kills 12 at Sunni funeral in Baghdad
[Al Ahram] A jacket wallah attacked a Sunni funeral in Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, Iraqi officials said, a day after bombings targeting Shia mourners killed more than 70. Medical and security sources said the bomber, who detonated explosives at a funeral tent in the Dura area of south Storied Baghdad, also maimed at least 30 people. The attack came a day after bombings against mourners in Sadr City, a Shia area of north Storied Baghdad, killed at least 73 people and maimed more than 200. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... on Sunday warned against Dire Revenge™ attacks for the Sadr City blasts. "Retaliation can only bring more violence and it is the responsibility of all leaders to take strong action not to let violence escalate further," Gyorgy Busztin, the UN secretary general's deputy special representative for Iraq, said in a statement. "Violence in all forms must be condemned, but I am particularly appalled by the increasing number of vicious attacks against those already bereaved," he said. The Sadr City and Sunday's bombings were not the first targeting mourners in recent months. They came after two bombs went kaboom!on Friday at a Sunni mosque near Samarra north of Storied Baghdad, killing 18 people. Iraq was ravaged by a bloody Sunni-Shiite conflict that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed thousands of people. There are persistent fears, bolstered by sectarian attacks this year, that Iraq may return to all-out conflict between its Shiite majority and Sunni minority. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-23 |
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