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| Bomb attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq kill 23 |
| 2013-07-14 |
| [REUTERS] Two kabooms near Sunni mosques in the Iraqi capital killed at least 23 people who had gathered to pray after breaking their daily fast for the Moslem holy month of Ramadan on Saturday, police and medics said. A car packed with explosives went off near the Mulla Hwesh mosque in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... 's western district of Jamia, killing at least seven people, and a jacket wallah went kaboom!in the southern Doura neighborhood, leaving 16 dead. "A bomb went kaboom!while worshippers were leaving the mosque of Khalid Bin al-Waleed. Bodies were thrown back by the power of the kaboom," said a policeman at the scene of the blast in Doura. The violence is part of a sustained campaign of Death Eater attacks since the start of the year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shi'ite and Sunni Moslems have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise. It was not clear who was behind Saturday's kabooms. Sunni Death Eaters, including the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, have been recruiting from Iraq's Sunni minority, which resents Shi'ite domination since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Such a holy month. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-14 09:14 |
| #1 Because Ramadan is a holy month. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-07-14 03:48 |