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| String of violent attacks rock Iraq, killing 23 |
| 2013-04-30 |
| [RT] At least 23 people have been killed and dozens injured in a spate of boom-mobileings and shootings in Shia areas of southern Iraq. The past week has seen festivities as a result of a raid on a Sunni protest camp last Tuesday, which left 200 people dead. An army raid on a Sunni government protest camp in the northern town of Hawija - near Kirkuk - last week sparked a wave of violence across the country. In the latest attack two bombs went off in the town of Amara, 300 km southeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing nine people and wounding dozens more, striking a market and a place where people had gathered to look for work. Other bombs went off at markets in Diwaniyah and Kerbala, and in the Shia neighborhood of Mahmudiya, a mainly Sunni town. "I was preparing to go to work when a big kaboom shook my house and broke the glass in all the windows. I ran outside, the kaboom was near my house and bodies were everywhere," Woody Jasim, a resident of Diwaniyah, told Rooters. Meanwhile in djinn-infested Mosul, 390 km north of Storied Baghdad, gunnies clashed with the army early on Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, Rooters reports citing military sources. Also one soldier was rubbed out and another was maimed by a sniper in eastern Storied Baghdad, police say. The attacks are a violent Dire Revenge™ response to the Shia dominated government and army, which carried out the raid last week. The protesters were denouncing the authorities for allegedly targeting the Sunni community and were calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is a Shia. On Saturday, al-Maliki said that sectarianism is again plaguing Iraq, and in an apparent reference to Syria, said "because it began in another place in this region". |
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