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| Eight killed in Iraq violence |
| 2013-08-19 |
| [Al Ahram] Attacks in Iraq killed at least eight people including an anti-Al-Qaeda militia leader on Sunday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence plaguing the country. Security forces have in recent weeks carried out some of their biggest operations since the 2011 withdrawal of US forces, but analysts and diplomats say authorities have not addressed root causes of the unrest. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has nevertheless vowed to press on with the campaign in a bid to combat Iraq's worst violence since 2008. Two roadside kabooms targeted a bus stop and a supermarket in two separate areas of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing at least four people and wounding 13, most of them government employees. And the body of a local council member who was kidnapped the day before was found south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a disputed northern city. He was shot in the head and his body bore signs of torture. Also on Sunday, gunnies on a cycle of violence killed the leader of a local Sahwa, or anti-Al-Qaeda, militia and his three-year-old niece and maimed his 10-year-old nephew near Kirkuk. Sunni gunnies consider the Sahwa, a collection of Sunni tribal militias which joined forces with the United States from late 2006, to be traitors and frequently attack them. And in Muqdadiyah, north of Storied Baghdad, a roadside kaboom killed a teacher while he was driving. The teacher, a Sunni Arab, had fled a Shia-majority area of Muqdadiyah in 2006 and returned just two months ago. |
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