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| Iraq Bombings Kill Six |
| 2012-05-15 |
| [An Nahar] Six people were killed in attacks in central and northern Iraq on Monday, including five who died in a spate of bombings in the former Death Eater bastion 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... officials said. In Fallujah, just west of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , three kabooms in close succession killed five people and maimed 18 others. An initial car boom detonated in the center of the city, killing five people and wounding eight, Anbar provincial police front man First Lieutenant Ali al-Amiri and Doctor Omar Dalli from Fallujah hospital said. Two more attacks -- a cycle of violence bomb and a roadside kaboom -- in the east and west of the city respectively maimed 10 more people, including two traffic coppers, the officials said. Explosives experts defused one more car boom and two roadside kabooms. Fallujah is in western Sunni Arab Anbar province. It was one of several towns along the Euphrates valley that became al-Qaeda strongholds after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... from 2006, local Sunni tribes sided with the U.S. military and unrest dwindled in Anbar as rebel fighters were ejected from the region. Another attack on Monday in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk left intelligence service First Lieutenant Abbas Fatih Ahmed dead when a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car detonated shortly after he left his house, deputy provincial police chief Major General Torhan Abdulrahman said. |
| Posted by:Fred |