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Iraq
Baghdad Car Bomb Kills Young Iraqi Footballer
2015-03-26
[AnNahar] A boom-mobile in Baghdad killed Iraqi footballer Mahdi Abdulzahra on his way to practice, an official from his Electricity Club team said on Tuesday.

Abdulzahra, who was born in 1996, was among eight people killed in the blast close to a restaurant and a mosque in the Sadr City area on Monday.

He was one of the top players for the Electricity Club, one of the various Iraqi football teams associated with government ministries, and was chosen to try out for Iraq's Olympic team.

Football is wildly popular in Iraq and support for the national team brings together the country's disparate religious and ethnic groups.

Car and roadside kaboomings used to be a daily occurrence in Baghdad, but with turbans tied down fighting Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitary groups, such attacks have fallen sharply.
Car and roadside kaboomings used to be a daily occurrence in Baghdad, but with turbans tied down fighting Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitary groups, such attacks have fallen sharply.

Violence is however still a major problem in other parts of the country, with hundreds of people killed per month as pro-government forces battle the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 jihadist group, which led an offensive that overran large areas last year.
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