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Shaken by Car Bomb, Mosul Fears Return of IS Nightmares
[An Nahar] A deadly boom-mobile in Iraq's djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the first since the city was recaptured from jihadists, has left residents shaken and terrified that past nightmares are returning to haunt them. The blast late on Thursday hit the popular Abu Layla restaurant in Mosul, the northern city that for three years served as 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's Iraq headquarters. When residents awoke to the scene of destruction on Friday morning, they feared their bloody past with IS was not yet behind them. "We were liberated, so we thought that security was back," Mossab, a 25-year-old restaurant employee, told AFP. "But now it's worse than ever." Three people were killed and 12 maimed in the bombing, medical and security sources said. The restaurant suffered significant damage. One side, which sits on a road junction, seemed to have its windows blown out and the facade partly sheared off. The cars in the street all had shattered or cracked windscreens and were covered in black ash and debris. Mossab's car, parked nearby, was one of them. "I've been working for four years to save up to buy it, but it all went in the blink of an eye," he said, devastated. Iraqi security forces deployed outside the restaurant on Friday, standing guard as cleaning crews worked to remove the debris. Residents nervously came to inspect the damage. Khodor Ali, a 38-year-old who lives nearby, was worried there would be more violence. "If the security situation stays like this, then our future is in the gutter," he told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-11 |
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