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| Seven Killed Car Bomb at Iraq Liquor Store |
| 2014-05-25 |
| [An Nahar] A boom-mobile outside an alcohol shop in an ethnically-mixed northern Iraqi city killed at least seven people on Saturday evening, security and medical officials said. The blast, which also maimed 17, struck in the Wasati neighborhood in southern Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a tinderbox city that is at the center of a long-running territorial dispute between the central government and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. The evening kaboom came amid a protracted surge in bloodshed that has left more than 3,700 people dead so far this year, fueling fears Iraq is slipping back into the all-out conflict that plagued it in 2006 and 2007. Attacks elsewhere in the country on Saturday killed 10 other people, including three farmers who were found beheaded, officials said. Violence has surged in the past year to its highest level since 2008, while anti-government fighters also control an entire city a short drive from Storied Baghdad and parts of another. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 The old bacon and bier tour for the locals? Sounds like a thrill a minute. Islam needs NASCAR. Al Chevy versus Infidel Toyota, Team Ford Haram driving MoPar. I can hear Ned Jarrett now... He blowed 'ur up! He blowed 'ur up! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-25 13:23 |
| #3 Also an attack on Christians. Alcohol is considered "haram" (forbidden) however in Middle Eastrn countries Christian minorities have long been tolerated as the peddlers of pork and alcohol. When a resident Muslim wants a tot they're known to frequent the Christian districts. It's upsetting to some purist Islamists... |
| Posted by: Incredulous 2014-05-25 07:25 |
| #2 ... the difference being whether the store is still there the next day. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-05-25 01:30 |
| #1 I've been bombed in a car outside a liquor store... |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-05-25 00:59 |