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Iraq
Bombing, shooting attacks kill 17 in Iraqi capital
2015-03-12
[Iran Press TV] At least 17 people have bit the dust in the latest spate of terror attacks in and around the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.

According to Iraqi police and medical sources, the deadliest attack on Wednesday occurred when a boom-mobile went off in the Hurriya district of Baghdad, leaving nine dead and 30 others injured.

In another bombing near a car park in al-Obeidi neighborhood east of Baghdad, two people were killed and seven maimed.

A police patrol near Zeidan, west of the capital, stuck a roadside kaboom while another went kaboom! in Taji to the north. The blasts left four people dead.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit.
Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed...

an attack by unknown gunnies on a home in Jisr Diyala, a suburb on Baghdad's southeastern edge, killed the owner of the house and his son.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
Iraqi officials usually blame such assaults on the ISIL Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorists.

According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), a total of 1,103 Iraqis bit the dust last month, while 2,280 others were maimed as a result of attacks in the country.
Posted by:Fred

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