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| Iraq |
| Iraq Clashes, Bombings Kill Eight |
| 2014-05-07 |
| [An Nahar] Clashes near an Iraqi city held by anti-government fighters and bombings targeting soldiers killed at least eight people Tuesday, officials said, the latest casualties of a protracted surge of nationwide violence. The government has blamed external factors such as the civil war in neighboring Syria for the bloodshed, but analysts and diplomats say anger among the Sunni Arab minority over alleged mistreatment by the Shiite-led authorities has played a major role in the violence. In Al-Amriyah, south of the city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... bully boyz attacked a security forces checkpoint early on Tuesday, sparking festivities. The violence killed three children and a woman and maimed 15 people, Doctor Ahmed Shami said. The toll for security forces and bully boyz was not immediately clear. In a sign of both the reach of anti-government bully boyz and the weakness of security forces, all of Fallujah, a short drive from Storied Baghdad, and shifting parts of Anbar picturesque provincial capital Ramadi, farther west, have been out of government control since early January. In Abu Ghraib, also west of the capital, a roadside kaboom went kaboom!near an army patrol, killing at least one soldier and wounding three, a police colonel and a medical official said. And another blast in Jurf al-Sakhr, south of Storied Baghdad, killed three soldiers and maimed six, a police captain and a doctor said. |
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