[REUTERS] At least 47 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in two kabooms on Monday in eastern Iraq, security and medical sources said, underscoring a continued threat from 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
bully boyz in a province previously considered freed of them.
In January Iraqi officials declared victory over the radical jihadist group in Diyala province, which borders Iran, after security forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries drove them out of towns and villages there, but the bully boyz have remained active.
At least 40 people were killed and 72 others maimed when a boom-mobile went
kaboom!in a marketplace north of the city of Baquba, the sources said. A separate blast to the east of the city killed a further seven people and maimed 25.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but they came less than a month after a bombing claimed by Islamic State in the nearby town of Khan Bani Saad, which left more than 100 people dead.