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Iraq
Iraqi security foil bombing of Shia rituals spot in Kirkuk
2018-03-30
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces on Thursday foiled an attempted bombing of a Shia rituals facility and killed the attacker in Kirkuk province, a commander was quoted saying.

Maan al-Saadi, an army commander in charge of the recent security campaign against remnant 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
cells in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
said in a statement, quoted by Alsumaria News, that Counter-Terrorism Service forces tracked down an IS member before he managed to plant a bomb at an under-construction "Husseiniya" at the province’s center.

The suspect engaged in a firefight with the suspect before killing him, according to Saadi.
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