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| Qaida Announces 100-attack Campaign in Iraq |
| 2011-08-21 |
| [An Nahar] Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq said it has launched a campaign of 100 attacks across the country since the middle of August, in a statement seen Saturday by Agence La Belle France Presse The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) said the campaign began on August 15, Iraq's deadliest day in more than a year, and would exact Dire Revenge™ for the death of the late Osama bin Laden, ... who is currently taking a long nap in the dirt... urm... water... who was killed in a U.S. special forces raid in Pakistain in May, and other big shots. The group did not, however, explicitly claim any of the August 15 violence. "We have started this stage with an invasion called 'Revenge for Sheikh Osama bin Laden and big shots'," said the statement, posted on the Honein jihadist website. "The campaign started in the middle of the fasting month and, if God wills, it will end after 100 attacks," it said, referring to the holy Mohammedan month of Ramadan, which runs through August. "They will include raids, martyrdom operations (suicide kabooms), roadside kabooms, silenced weapons and snipers, in all cities, rural areas and provinces." On August 15, the day the campaign apparently began, a series of attacks in 18 cities across Iraq left 74 people dead and more than 300 maimed, the deadliest day of violence in the country since May 2010. The statement did not claim any of the day's attacks, which included suicide bombs, roadside blasts, and shootings. Separately, leaflets were distributed overnight in south and west Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... calling for residents to join ISI and fight U.S. forces, an interior ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... . U.S. and Iraqi security officials say that while ISI is markedly weaker than during the height of Iraq's sectarian war in 2006 and 2007, it is still capable of carrying out spectacular coordinated attacks. A total of 259 people were killed in violence in Iraq in July, according to official figures, the second-highest figure in 2011. |
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