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| Attacks including Series of Bombings Kill 31 in Iraq |
| 2013-07-15 |
| [AnNahar] Violence including an apparently-coordinated series of bombings that struck central and south Iraq on Sunday killed 31 people, security sources and medics said, bringing the July corpse count to more than 370. The attacks are just the latest in a surge in violence in which more than 2,600 people have died so far this year, according to Agence La Belle France Presse figures based on security and medical sources. Iraq has faced years of attacks by hard boys, but analysts say widespread discontent among members of its Sunni Arab minority which the Shiite-led government has failed to address has driven the spike in unrest. Sunday was the fourth day in a row in which more than 30 people were killed in attacks, and an average of 26 people have died per day in unrest in Iraq over the first two weeks of July. Both senior politicians and religious leaders have remained silent about the wave of violence. The deadliest attacks struck central and south Iraq on Sunday evening. In Kut, a boom-mobile near a bakery killed nine people and maimed 42, while another boom-mobile maimed two coppers to the north of Hilla. A boom-mobile also struck a market in Karbala, a city home to one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam, killing four people and wounding 19. Another boom-mobile went kaboom!in Nasiriyah, killing two people and wounding 25. And in the southern port city of Basra, a sound bomb, a boom-mobile and a roadside kaboom went kaboom!, killing eight people and maimed 35. No group immediately grabbed credit, but coordinated series of bombings are a favored tactic of al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate. Five other people were killed in Nineveh province in Iraq's north. A roadside kaboom killed district councilor Mohammed Obaid Sultan south of djinn-infested Mosul, the province's capital, along with one of his sons. Another son was maimed. The head of the same Hamam al-Alil district council, Saad Ali Shuwait, was targeted by another roadside kaboom, which maimed four of his guards. In djinn-infested Mosul itself, two soldiers were rubbed out at a checkpoint. And a policeman was rubbed out and another maimed in an attack on a checkpoint south of the city, while a roadside kaboom targeted Nineveh police chief Brigadier General Khaled al-Hamdani's convoy, wounding three of his guards. In Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... west of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , gunnies rubbed out police Lieutenant Colonel Iyad al-Samarraie and maimed two of his guards near a mosque. And a roadside kaboom near a restaurant, northwest of the Diyala placid provincial capital of Baquba, killed two people and maimed three. In addition to security, the Iraqi government is also falling short when it comes to other basic functions. Iraqis are faced with severely lacking services, including power shortages, widespread corruption and political disputes that have paralyzed the government, with almost no major legislation passed in years. |
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