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| Car bombs and roadside bombings kill 21 in Iraq |
| 2013-12-10 |
| [Al Ahram] A series of attacks, including a boom-mobile outside a cafe, killed at least 21 people in Iraq on Monday, officials said. Iraqi authorities have struggled to quell a surge in violence -- mostly from myrmidon attacks and bombings -- that engulfed the country following a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in April. Since then, the level of bloodshed has soared to heights unseen since Iraq stood on the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007. The deadliest of Monday's attacks took place outside a cafe in the town of Buhriz, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) north of the capital, Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing 12 people and wounding 24, police said. Three more bombings around the country killed an additional six people. A roadside kaboom targeted an army patrol just south of the capital, killing one Iraqi soldier and maimed two others, while in Storied Baghdad's eastern Basmaya district a bomb at an outdoor market killed three people and maimed seven, police said. In a village just north of Storied Baghdad, three coppers were killed and 10 were maimed when a boom-mobile went kaboom!near their checkpoint. And in the southwestern suburbs of Storied Baghdad, a roadside kaboom struck a car carrying anti-al-Qaeda Sunni fighters, killing two and wounding three, police and hospital officials said. The Sunni militia group, known as the Sahwa, joined forces with US troops at the height of the Iraq war to fight al-Qaeda. Since then, Sahwa members have been a frequent target for Sunni myrmidons, who call the faceless myrmidons traitors. Hospital officials confirmed the casualty figures for all the attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday's attacks, but myrmidon groups frequently target civilians in cafes and public areas, as well as members of the security forces, in an attempt to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government and stir up Iraq's already simmering sectarian tensions. The attacks came a day after a series of bombings in and around Storied Baghdad killed at least 39 people. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Nation building be hard. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-12-10 05:00 |
| #1 Its so..so...Islamic. |
| Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 2013-12-10 04:34 |