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Iranians among 74 Dead in Iraq Attacks Claimed by IS
[AnNahar] Gunmen and suicide boom-mobileers on Thursday killed at least 74 people, including Iranians, near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, in an attack claimed by 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. The attackers struck at midday, opening fire on a restaurant before getting into a car and blowing themselves up at a nearby security checkpoint, officials said. Abdel Hussein al-Jabri, deputy health chief for the mainly Shiite province of Dhiqar, said at least 74 people had died, including seven Iranians, and another 93 people were maimed. That was up from the previous toll of 52 dead and 91 maimed in what was already the deadliest IS attack in Iraq since pro-government forces drove the jihadists out of second city djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in July. Security sources said the attackers were disguised as members of the Hashed al-Shaabi, a mainly Shiite paramilitary alliance which has fought alongside the army and police against IS in northern Iraq. Rescue workers and members of the security forces placed bodies in ambulances and cleared away rubble and the carcasses of burnt-out cars from the site. Burned bodies and vehicles including buses and trucks testified to the violence of the attack. Shelters built of corrugated metal were reduced to scraps of metal, twisted by heat. The area targeted is on a highway used by Shiite pilgrims and visitors from neighboring Iran to travel to the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala further north, although Dhiqar has previously been spared the worst of Iraq's violence. - IS claim - IS grabbed credit for the attacks in a statement carried by its Amaq propaganda arm. It said several jacket wallahs had staged the assault on a restaurant and a security checkpoint, killing "dozens of Shiites." Posted by: trailing wife 2017-09-15 |
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