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| ISIS Affiliate Hits Shiite Mosque in Kuwait, Killing 25 People |
| 2015-06-26 |
| [NYTIMES] A jacket wallah purportedly from an 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.... affiliate unleashed the first terrorist attack in Kuwait in more than two decades on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding scores more in a bombing that targeted Shiite worshippers after midday prayers. The bombing struck the Imam Sadiq Mosque in the residential neighborhood of al-Sawabir in Kuwait's capital, Kuwait City. It is one of the oldest Shiite mosques in Kuwait, a predominantly Sunni Arab nation where at least at third of the population is believed to be Shiite Moslems. It was the third attack in five weeks to be claimed by a purported IS affiliate calling itself the Najd Province, a reference to the central region of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... where the ultraconservative Sunni ideology of Wahhabism originated. The upstart IS branch had claimed two prior bombing attacks on Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia that killed 26 people in late May. The group was unheard of until the first Saudi bombing. The attack took place as worshippers were standing shoulder to shoulder in group prayer, according to one of the witnesses at the mosque, Hassan al-Haddad. The kaboom destroyed the back of the mosque, near the door, he said, adding that other worshippers behind him said they saw a man walk in, stand in the back with other congregants and detonate his device. Another witness, Ahmed al-Shawaf, said he heard a man interrupt prayer by shouting "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great" in Arabic, several times. The man then he yelled out something about joining the Prophet Muhammad for iftar, the dusk meal with which Moslems break their daytime fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, which started last week. Then, the blast came, al-Shawaf said. The kaboom took place near the end of a second prayer, which is traditional to Shiites and follows the main midday Friday prayer. The Ministry of Interior said 25 people were killed and 202 maimed. Police formed a cordon around the mosque's complex immediately after the kaboom, banning people from entering or gathering near the area. Ambulances could be seen ferrying the maimed from the site. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Daring IRAN to invade??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-06-26 19:25 |