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| Iraq |
| Dual Suicide Attack in Baghdad Kills 13 |
| 2015-10-04 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Bomb blasts killed at least 13 people in one of Baghdad's main neighborhoods Saturday when three suicide kaboomers tried to break through a checkpoint, security officials said. "Three jacket wallahs tried to cross the checkpoint at Adan square" in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood, Baghdad Operations Command front man Saad Maan said in a statement. The attack took place at around 5:30 pm (1430 GMT) on Adan square, one of the main access points for the Shiite holy shrine of Kadhimiyah, which attracts many visitors on Saturdays. Maan said the security forces at the checkpoint engaged the attackers and rubbed out one of the bombers by the nearby railway while the other two blew themselves up. A police colonel said that one of the kabooms was caused by a suicide boom-mobile. He said initial reports were of 13 killed and 37 maimed. A source at the nearby Kadhimiyah hospital confirmed the casualty toll. Adan square has been repeatedly hit by attacks. More than 20 people died in a suicide kaboom there in February. The so-called '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.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group, which has seized swathes of Iraq since last year, claims responsibility for most such attacks but there was no immediate claim for Saturday's twin blasts. |
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