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| Iraq Bombers Kill 24, 16 of Them in Cafe |
| 2013-08-13 |
| [An Nahar] Bombers killed 24 people in Iraq on Monday, 16 of them in a suicide kaboom on a cafe north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , officials said. The other bombings hit a football field and a market, the latest in a upsurge of violence that has killed more than 3,400 people so far this year, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally. Militants have carried out a number of attacks on cafes in recent weeks, especially during the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan, when many Iraqis went to cafes after breaking their daytime fast. This Ramadan, which ended last week, was one of the deadliest for Iraq in years, with more than 800 people killed in attacks. The jacket wallah struck a cafe in the town of Balad at around 6:30 pm (1530 GMT), also wounding more than 35 people, municipal council chief Faris Jaafar said. In Muqdadiyah, also north of Storied Baghdad, a bomb went kaboom!near a football field, killing four people and wounding 14, among them three children. And in the nearby Diyala placid provincial capital Baquba, a bomb went kaboom!in a market, killing four people and wounding 20. The attacks came a day after al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed attacks that killed more than 70 people on Saturday. "The Islamic State mobilized... in Storied Baghdad and the southern states and others to convey a quick message of deterrence on the third day of Eid al-Fitr," the group said, referring to the holiday marking the end of Ramadan. "They (Shiites) will not dream of security during night or day, during Eid or other" days, it said. The attacks came just weeks after assaults on prisons near Storied Baghdad, also claimed by the al-Qaeda front group, freed hundreds of prisoners including leading myrmidons. The brazen assaults highlighted both the growing reach of forces of Evil in Iraq and the rapidly worsening security situation. Analysts, as well as global police organization Interpol, had warned that the jailbreaks could lead to a rise in attacks, as the escapees were said to include senior al-Qaeda myrmidons. Violence in Iraq has increased markedly this year, with analysts saying the upsurge is driven by anger among the Sunni Arab minority that the Shiite-led government has failed to address, despite months of protests. With the latest violence, attacks in Iraq have killed 3,404 people since the beginning of the year, according to figures compiled by AFP -- an average of 15 people killed each day. |
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