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| Iraq car bomb kills 30 as year's death toll tops 5,800 |
| 2013-11-22 |
| [Al Ahram] A boom-mobile in a packed food market north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 30 people on Thursday as a surge in violence nationwide pushed Iraq's corpse count for 2013 above 5,800. The rise in unrest has forced officials to appeal for international help in fighting the country's worst bloodshed since 2008, just months before Iraq's first elections in four years. Thursday's attack comes a day after a spate of violence across the country, including a wave of bombings in the capital, killed 59 people and left more than 100 maimed, marking Iraq's deadliest day this month. The latest kaboom went off at around noon (0900 GMT) near a cafe in a food market in the town of Saadiyah, which lies northest of Storied Baghdad in restive ethnically-mixed Diyala province. At least 30 people were killed and 40 others maimed in the blast, according to a police colonel and a doctor, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. Saadiyah is populated mostly by Faylis, or Shiite Kurds, and lies within a tract of disputed territory that is claimed by both the central government and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. Militants frequently exploit poor communication between the two sides' security forces in order to carry out attacks. Most recently, a jacket wallah targeting a group of Shiite pilgrims in the town on November 14, the anniversary of the death of a venerated figure in Shiite Islam, killed 32 people. Thursday's attack came after a series of boom-mobileings in Storied Baghdad, along with several other attacks nationwide, killed 59. No group has grabbed credit for the violence, but Sunni Death Eaters linked to Al-Qaeda often carry out bloody attacks ostensibly in a bid to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government and security forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 That's the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine (PPPM) to some people. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-11-22 09:01 |
| #2 Notice no MSM coverage. Democrat in the whitehouse = silence. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-11-22 08:38 |
| #1 You would have to wear a turban to truly understand. But then the bright side is that all the dead were wearing turbans too. |
| Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 2013-11-22 04:38 |