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Islamic State group takes credit for suicide bombing in northern Syria
[PBS.ORG] A jacket wallah detonated a truck of explosives in northeastern Syria Wednesday morning, killing at least 44 people.The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group grabbed credit for the attack, which struck near security headquarters in the predominantly-Kurdish city of Qamishli, located near the Turkish border. The city was previously the target of IS bombings, most recently in April. Rooters reported that Wednesday’s detonation was so powerful, it injured two people and shattered windows across the border in the Turkish town of Nusaybin. "It was a busy road," Qamishli resident Dawood Dawood told The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... via messaging app Viber. "There were many cars, and there were generators that feed the area with power; this is why the damage and corpse count were so high." A second kaboom minutes after the first blast, originally thought to be a cycle of violence attack, appeared to come from a gas canister that caught fire by the truck, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
The bombing is said to have targeted a neighborhood that is home to offices of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and some of the autonomous ministerial buildings. Initial reports say that among the casualties are civilians and members of the security forces. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-28 |
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