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Iraq
Suicide attack targets area southeast of Baghdad, killing 17
2017-11-28
[Al Ahram] Two attackers shot several civilians on Monday in the Nahrawan area southeast of Baghdad before one went kaboom! and the other was killed by security forces, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said, without providing official casualty figures.

Local media reported at least 17 people were killed and 28 maimed. No group has grabbed credit for the attack, which an interior ministry front man described as "a terrorist attack by two terrorist suicide kaboomers who fired indiscriminately on citizens in the Nahrawan area".

Suicide bombings are a trademark of 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....
. Iraqi security officials say the group is likely to wage an insurgency after its self-proclaimed caliphate collapsed and its snuffies were dislodged from territories they held in the country.
Update from The Times of Israel at 10:45 pm ET:
The Islamic State group claims responsibility for a double suicide kaboom that killed 11 people.

In an online statement, the bad boy group says two jacket wallahs yesterday targeted Shiites in Baghdad’s southeastern suburb of Nahrawan. The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately verified by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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