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More than 80 killed, injured in several Baghdad, Basra blasts
 Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The total corpse count of boom-mobileing blasts, which occurred late on Friday in Baghdad and Basra, reached 35 victims, Anadolu news agency quoted medical and security sources as saying on Saturday. Two booby-trapped vehicles, driven by suicide kaboomers, went kaboom!at Abu Dsheer checkpoint, located at the northern entrance of the capital of Baghdad. The blasts left 24 victims and 17 injured, the source, who preferred anonymity said. Two other blasts occurred in Basra when booby-trapped vehicles went kaboom!at al-Remeila military checkpoint, located on a highway near oilfields in Basra. Eleven persons were killed, while 32 others were maimed. Later on Friday, 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.... grabbed credit for the Basra boom-mobileing.
IS issued a statement claiming the attack but gave a different account of how it unfolded, saying that one Death Eater clashed with security forces using a light weapon before detonating an boom belt, after which a second blew up a boom-mobile. And in south Iraq, a jacket wallah blew up an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Basra, killing 11 people and wounding 30, according to Riyadh Abdulamir, the head of Basra province health department. Another Death Eater who left a second explosives-rigged vehicle was killed by security forces, the Basra Operations Command said. IS also claimed the Basra attack, but said that both bombs were successfully detonated. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-21 |
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