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| Bomb attacks kill 23 people in Iraq |
| 2014-11-13 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Suicide bombings and boom-mobiles, including an attack on federal police headquarters, killed 23 people in Iraq on Wednesday, police, military and medical sources said. A boom-mobile, followed shortly afterwards by a suicide kaboom, killed 11 people at the police building in al-Nisour Square in Baghdad, including six coppers. Twenty-one people were maimed. In Diyala province north of Baghdad, Army Colonel Faisal al-Zuhairi was killed when a jacket wallah in a Humvee attacked his convoy. Five of his men also died. A suicide bomber in an exploding car attacked an army checkpoint in the town of Yusifiya, 15 kilometers south of Baghdad. Six people were killed and 20 maimed, police said. Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) hard boyz swept through northern Iraq in June and took control of large areas of the Sunni Moslem west of the country, seizing Humvees, tanks and armored vehicles from defeated Iraqi government troops. Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Tuesday he intended to remove concrete security barriers from Baghdad and give a greater role to police in protecting the capital, despite little respite from the boom-mobiles the barriers were designed to thwart. Abadi praised what he called "excellent" security operations in Baghdad, and his comments suggested he aimed to reduce the army's security role in the city of 7 million people. |
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