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| Car bombs hit Shia pilgrims as Iraq unrest kills 68 |
| 2013-12-17 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Car bombs destroyed Shia pilgrims near Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... while bully boyz attacked a city council headquarters and a cop shoppe, as Iraq-wide violence killed at least 68 people Monday, officials said. The killing of the pilgrims underscored the danger of sectarian violence in Iraq, while the attacks on the city council and cop shoppe in Salaheddin province showed the impunity with which bully boyz can strike even targets that should be highly secure. Violence in Iraq has reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was emerging from a period of brutal sectarian killings, and has raised fears it is slipping back into all-out conflict. In the Rashid area south of Storied Baghdad, two boom-mobiles targeted Shia pilgrims, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 50, security and medical officials said. Sunni bully boyz including those linked to al Qaeda frequently target members of Iraq's Shia majority, whom they consider to be apostates. In the city of Tikrit, bully boyz detonated a boom-mobile near the city council headquarters and then occupied the building, with employees still inside. Iraqi security forces surrounded the building, and then carried out an assault that Counter-Terrorism Service front man Sabah Noori said freed 40 people who were held inside. "We freed all the hostages" and killed one jacket wallah, while two others blew themselves up, Noori told AFP. A police major and a doctor said that a city council member and two police were killed, though it was unclear whether they died during the initial attack or the later assault by security forces. The assault came after suicide bombers struck a cop shoppe in the town of Baiji, also in Salaheddin province. One bomber detonated a boom-mobile at the gate of the station, after which three entered, rubbed out an officer and a policeman, and waited inside. SWAT security forces then attacked the station, killing one of the hard boys, while the other two blew themselves up, killing three police. Gunmen also killed three soldiers guarding an oil pipeline near Tikrit, while two oil protection police were killed and three maimed by a bomb south of the northern city of Kirkuk. The second-deadliest attack on Monday was in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where bully boyz bumped off 12 people on a bus. The city has become one of the most dangerous parts of Iraq, with bully boyz carrying out frequent attacks and reportedly extorting money from shopkeepers. Also on Monday, five other boom-mobiles and a magnetic "sticky bomb" on a vehicle went kaboom!in and around the Iraqi capital, killing at least 17 people and wounding at least 43 -- the second series of blasts in the area in 24 hours. One of the boom-mobiles went off in a car park near the Storied Baghdad provincial council headquarters, killing at least four people. The attacks came after another series of bombings in and around Storied Baghdad killed at least nine people on Sunday night, while violence elsewhere in the country that day killed a further 11 people, among them a TV presenter and a family of five. The presenter, Nawras al-Nuaimi, was the sixth journalist to be killed in Iraq since October, and the fifth to die in the city of Mosul in the same period. Media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) issued a statement on her killing, saying it was "stunned by this latest murder and by the failure of the local and national authorities to respond to the deadly campaign against journalists in Iraq." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Moslem values. But no "true" Moslem would do such things. Right? Islam is the Religion of Peace. It's just that...well....WHOLE COUNTRIES of Moslems seem to do this sort of stuff to EACH OTHER when there aren't even any Americans around "oppressing" them . And not just any country...take your pick...every country with Islam smeared all over it will do this to other Moslems when they don't have enough other people to kill, they get all hot and sweaty and start in on each other. It is because they are the religion of Peace...or something like that. But no "true"Moslem would do such things...yeah? |
| Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 2013-12-17 05:51 |