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| Blasts Target Iraq Mourners, Six Killed |
| 2014-06-23 |
| [AnNahar] A suicide kaboom and a boom-mobile Sunday targeted people mourning an Iraqi police officer who died in festivities two days before, killing six people, police and a doctor said. The jacket wallah detonated explosives inside a building near the city of Ramadi, west of Storied Baghdad, where people had gathered to pay their condolences to the family of Colonel Majid al-Fahdawi. Later a boom-mobile went kaboom!nearby. The two attacks killed a total of six people and wounding eight. Iraqi security forces are battling a major Death Eater offensive that is advancing east through Anbar province, of which Ramadi is the capital. Fahdawi was apparently killed in festivities in the border town of al-Qaim on Friday, which is now in the hands of Death Eaters. Beginning late on June 9, gunnies led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) but also including a number of other groups such as loyalists of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, overran most of one province and parts of three others north of Storied Baghdad. The security forces wilted in the face of the initial onslaught, in many cases abandoning vehicles, equipment and even their uniforms. They appear to have recovered in the past few days, with officials touting gains against Death Eaters, though hard boyz have made territorial progress elsewhere. |
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