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| Blast at Shiite Mosque in Iraq Kills 10 | |
| 2005-10-05 | |
A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad Wednesday as worshippers gathered for prayers on the first day of Ramadan, killing at least 10 people and wounding 40, officials said.
When the blast hit just before 6 p.m., the faithful had come to the Ibn al-Nama mosque for prayers before returning home to eat the meal that ends the day's sunrise to sunset fast, Ali said. At least 10 people were killed and 40 wounded, said Ali and emergency doctor Ibrahim Nafi. The attack came five days after a car bomb exploded in a crowded market, killing 10 people, including three women and two children in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad. Wednesday was the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan for Iraq's Shiite majority. Sunnis began marking the month a day earlier. Al-Qaida in Iraq, one of the country's deadliest militant groups, has called for stepped up attacks during Ramadan — and it previously declared an all-out war on Iraq's Shiites. The Hillah bombing was the latest in a string of attacks by Sunni-led insurgents that have targeted Shiite Muslims. Thousands of U.S. troops are currently waging two major offensives to try to put down al-Qaida in its strongholds in the mostly Sunni northwest of Iraq. Hillah is one of the most insurgent-troubled towns of the Shiite heartland in the south. On Feb. 28, a suicide car bomber hit Shiite police and national guard recruits in Hillah, killing 125 people. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 There's a rumor that somewhere somebody might have spilled coffee on a Koran and folks are ready to go insane with the seething type rage riot thingy in all corners of the muslim lands. Slaughter a bunch of innocent muslims outside their place of worship in cold blood (not counting the maimed) at the onset of one of their most special holidays and the silence outside iraq is deafening. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-10-05 13:24 |