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Iraq
Iraq Arrests Suspects behind Car Bombing in Diyala
2015-07-20
[al-Alam] Iraqi security forces have tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
those linked with a deadly terrorist boom-mobileing that killed 120 people in Khan Bani Saad in the province of Diyala on Friday, a minister said; Al-Alam News Network reports.

Iraq's Interior Minister Muhammad al-Ghaban announced on Sunday that suspects linked with the suicide kaboom have been captured, according to Iraqi TV.

Back on Friday, at least 115 adults and children were killed when a boom-mobile went kaboom! in a busy market in Khan Bani Saad, a mostly Shiite town about 35 kilometers (21 miles) north of Baghdad.

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....
in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group grabbed credit on Twitter for the bombing.

People were celebrating the end of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan when the explosive-laden vehicle went off, marking one of the single deadliest acts of terror the notorious group has claimed.

The blast brought down several buildings in the city.

By Saturday, the corpse count had risen to 120, according to Muthana al Tamimi, governor of Diyala province. But with 140 more maimed in the blast, the number may go up.

The suicide boom-mobileer was carrying around three tons of explosives in a truck, offering a discount for sale of ice as a trap to lure more people.
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