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The driver of al-Habibiya car bomb found dead inside the car
[SHAFAQ] The Security Media Cell disclosed new details regarding the boom-mobile explosion in al-Habibiya area, east of Baghdad.

In a statement, the cell said that the vehicle's driver was killed in the earth-shattering kaboom, indicating that investigations are ongoing to determine the perpetrators and their motives.

Earlier today, a kaboom targeted al-Habibiya area in Sadr City, causing one death and 12 injuries.
Al Ahram adds:
Four people were killed and 20 maimed in a car kaboom on Thursday in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraqi police and medical workers said.

The car was parked at a busy second-hand equipment market in the mainly Shia Moslem district, police said.

An Iraqi military statement said the blast had killed one civilian, maimed 12 others and set several vehicles on fire. A second statement by the military said only one person, the driver, had died. Medics in Sadr City put the corpse count at four.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. It was the second big deadly bombing to hit Baghdad this year after a suicide kaboom claimed by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslems killed at least 32 people in a crowded market in January.

Large kabooms, once an almost daily occurrence in the Iraqi capital, have halted in recent years since Islamic State fighters were defeated in 2017, part of an overall improvement in security that has brought normal life back to Baghdad.

The January blast was the most deadly in three years.

Thursday's attack comes during an election year, a time when tension between rival Iraqi political groups has often caused violence.

The populist holy man Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
, after whom Sadr city is named and who commands a following of millions of Iraqis, counts among his enemies both Islamic State group and rival Shia parties with militias backed by Iran.
Posted by: Fred 2021-04-16
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