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| Iraq |
| Suicide blast, bombings strike Baghdad, killing 15 |
| 2015-11-21 |
| [AlAhram] Bomb attacks on a Shiite mosque and elsewhere in southern Baghdad killed at least 15 people Friday. The deadliest of the attacks targeted the mosque in the Iraqi capital's Nahiyet al-Rasheed neighborhood. A roadside kaboom blast went off on the street outside the mosque just as worshippers were finishing Friday prayers, police said. Within minutes, a jacket wallah inside the mosque detonated an explosives vest. Ten people were killed and 28 were maimed in that coordinated attack, according to police. Two separate roadside kabooms went kaboom!in commercial areas of southeast Baghdad, killing five people and wounding nine, security officials said. Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. Like the police, they spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media. No one immediately grabbed credit for the attacks, but near daily attacks in Baghdad are often claimed by 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Update from An Nahar: ISIS claimed the mosque attack. IS, in a statement, said a suicide bomber named as Abu Hussein al-Ansari carried out the attack inside the mosque, while security and medical officials said it took place nearby after Friday prayers, also wounding at least 19 people. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-21 17:42 |