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| At least 35 killed, 134 wounded in attacks across Iraq |
| 2013-05-16 |
| [Xinhua] At least 35 people were killed and 134 others maimed in violent attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, including a wave of boom-mobileings against the capital of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , Interior Ministry and police sources said. A total of 23 people were killed and 110 others maimed as nine boom-mobiles struck Storied Baghdad on Wednesday evening, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Three boom-mobileings hit the district of Sadr City in northeastern Storied Baghdad, killing seven people and injuring 33 others, he said. A boom-mobile went kaboom!in the Kadhimiya district, north of Storied Baghdad, killing two people and injuring nine others, the source said. Another bombing in the New Storied Baghdad district in southeastern Storied Baghdad killed one person and maimed 10, while the boom-mobileing in the Al Meshtel district in southeastern Storied Baghdad led to one dead and 13 injured, he said. Car bombings also hit the districts of Zaafraniyah, Seydia and Huseiniya in the capital, killing 12 people and wounding 45 others altogether, the source said. Earlier in the day, 12 people were killed and 24 maimed in separate kabooms, including two boom-mobileings, the police said. The deadliest attack occurred in the city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... some 250 km north of Storied Baghdad, when two boom-mobiles detonated coordinately in the southwestern part of the city, killing 10 people and wounding 13 others, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. In a separate attack, a roadside kaboom went kaboom!near a police patrol in a village near Kirkuk, damaging a police vehicle and wounding two coppers aboard, the source said. Elsewhere, a jacket wallah on a booby-trapped cycle of violence attacked a police patrol in the town of Tarmiyah, some 40 km north of Storied Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding four others, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua. In eastern province of Diyala, a magnetic bomb attached to a civilian car went off in western the quiet provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Storied Baghdad, killing an old man and wounding his grandson, a provincial police source said. Also in the province, four people were maimed when an explosive-laden cycle of violence detonated in a residential area in the city of Maqdadiyah, some 40 km northeast of Baquba, the source added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 It would be interesting to see what happens if Iraq intervenes on Assad's side by sending artillery, tanks and infantry. Very unlikely..... but just in case I've covered my popcorn short. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-05-16 17:59 |
| #4 It's concerning. This rank violence. |
| Posted by: newc 2013-05-16 13:16 |
| #3 Interesting indeed Zhang Fei, particularly if the contributions turn out to be US materials provided the Iraqi army. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-16 10:30 |
| #2 Gulf Arab money for Syrian Sunnis may be making its way to Iraq. It would be interesting to see what happens if Iraq intervenes on Assad's side by sending artillery, tanks and infantry. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2013-05-16 10:26 |
| #1 More sectarian violence? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2013-05-16 07:57 |