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| Iraq |
| Seven Dead in Baghdad Area Attacks |
| 2014-03-15 |
| [An Nahar] Bombings in and around Storied Baghdad on Friday, including blasts near two markets, killed seven people, the latest in a year-long surge in violence that authorities have failed to quell. The bloodshed, at its highest level since 2008, came a day after a suicide boom-mobile went off in the middle of a wedding party convoy in the western town of Rawa, killing 15 people, including women and kiddies. The unrest, which comes barely six weeks before parliamentary elections, is driven principally by widespread discontent among Iraq's Sunni Arab minority and by the civil war in neighboring Syria. A boom-mobile Friday at a market in Storied Baghdad's predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shuala killed three people, while another blast near a market in Rashid left one dead, security and medical officials said. Bombings in Taji and Tarmiyah, just north of the capital, killed three others, including two soldiers. On Thursday evening, a suicide boom-mobile that went off in the middle of a wedding party convoy killed 15 people and maimed 17 others in the town of Rawa, in the Sunni desert province of Anbar. Anbar has been roiled in recent months by unrest that has seen anti-government fighters take control of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... a city on Storied Baghdad's doorstep, as well as shifting areas of placid provincial capital Ramadi. |
| Posted by:Fred |