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| Iraq Bombings Kill 2 Women and Four Children |
| 2012-05-23 |
| [An Nahar] Bombings in the center of the ethnically-mixed city of Baquba, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killed six people including four children on Tuesday, an army officer and a doctor said. The attacks struck the homes of a Sunni anti-Qaeda militiaman and a formerly internally-displaced Shiite family, both of which are in a neighborhood that was an myrmidon stronghold during the worst of Iraq's sectarian bloodshed. In the first bombing, Death Eaters detonated explosives at the home of Arkan Mohammed, a fighter in the Sahwa, Sunni tribal militias that sided with U.S. forces against al-Qaeda from late 2006, helping turn the tide of Iraq's insurgency. Mohammed's wife and two of his sons, aged 10 and 13, were killed in the bombing, according to an Iraqi army lieutenant colonel and Doctor Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba hospital. The fighter and another of his children were maimed. Around 15 minutes later, a bomb went off at the home of a Shiite Moslem family who had been displaced from the Gatoun neighborhood but recently returned, the lieutenant colonel said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... The mother and two children died, while the father Mehdi al-Timimi and two other children were maimed, the officer and Ibrahim said. During the peak of Iraq's confessional violence in 2006 and 2007, Gatoun was a stronghold of al-Qaeda gunnies, but levels of unrest have significantly declined since. Attacks remain common, however, particularly in Baquba, and 126 Iraqis died as a result of violence in April, according to official figures. |
| Posted by:Fred |