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| 11 Dead, 19 Hurt in Suicide Attack on Iraq Shiite Shrine |
| 2013-12-11 |
| [An Nahar] A jacket wallah attacked a Shiite shrine in Iraq Tuesday, killing 11 people, including some mourning seven who were rubbed out earlier in the day, police and a doctor said. The blast at the Abu Idris shrine in Baquba, northeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... in the religiously and ethnically mixed province of Diyala, also maimed 19 people, the sources said. The victims of the bombing included people who were mourning the deaths of seven Shiite shepherds who were bumped off northeast of Baquba earlier on Tuesday. Members of Iraq's Shiite majority are frequently targeted by Sunni Death Eaters, who consider them to be apostates. In Storied Baghdad, a roadside kaboom went kaboom!near a market on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding five, while gunnies rubbed out a police officer and maimed two more near Ramadi, a city west of the capital. |
| Posted by:Fred |