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| Suicide Bomber Kills 37 at Crowded Iraq Checkpoint |
| 2014-03-10 |
| [An Nahar] A jacket wallah killed 37 people, including two state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? employees, at a checkpoint near Storied Baghdad Sunday, after Iraq's premier accused Riyadh and Doha of fueling bloodshed in the country. Iraq has been hit by a year-long surge in violence that has reached levels not seen since 2008, driven principally by widespread discontent among its Sunni Arab minority and by the civil war in neighboring Syria. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Sunni and Shia going at it again, but I don't see anything on how our Kurdish allies from before are doing. I was under the impression they were in position to take a chunk of Iraq when the Civil War hits. |
| Posted by: Charles 2014-03-10 12:48 |
| #4 I kind of feel bad for them. But they didn't want our help. And now I'm kind of glad we aren't there to give it. When the game is 'heads, I win; tails, you lose' the best choice is to not play. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-03-10 12:47 |
| #3 death toll is now in the 40s and might reach 50 Sunnis are suspicious of Iran's relatively heavy influence in the Iraq govt as well as the Iraq govt's discrimination against Sunnis. Of course this could have resulted in protests and petitions. But this is Iraq. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-03-10 12:33 |
| #2 For wild dogs, it's common. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-03-10 11:36 |
| #1 Pardon me for asking, but....by any chance...were every last one of the deaders Moslems? It doesn't have anything to do with the religion does it, or perhaps the values of the Culture? Do we see a pattern in all of this? Does it have anything at all to do with the original character of Mohammed or is it something else, like something in the food? |
| Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 2014-03-10 05:58 |