| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iraq |
| 10 Dead in Twin Bombing at Iraq Shiite Mosque, IS Claims Attack |
| 2015-05-09 |
| [AnNahar] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group grabbed credit for a kaboom on a Shiite mosque in eastern Iraq Friday that officials said killed at least 10 people including a senior policeman. Fifteen people were also maimed in the attack on al-Zahraa mosque in Baladruz, a district in Diyala province 75 kilometers (46 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the interior ministry said. There were conflicting reports on the nature of the attack. The interior ministry said two boom-mobiles went off and a police officer told AFP one car went kaboom!and immediately afterwards a jacket wallah went kaboom!. IS, in an online claim posted on jihadist websites, said a suicide bomber in a car carried out the attack. "Brother Abu Jihad al-Ansari... drove his booby-trapped car... and blew it up, killing dozens," the statement said. The interior ministry identified one victim of the "twin terrorist attack" as Colonel Adnan al-Tamimi, who led a rapid intervention force in Baladruz. Friday's attack is the latest in a series of IS bombings targeting Shiite districts or militias in Iraq, since members of the community have joined ranks with government forces to battle the jihadist group. The holy warrior group, which controls chunks of Iraq and neighboring Syria, was present in many areas of Diyala province, which authorities said they retook in January. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |