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| Car Bomb Kills 10 Shiite Mourners in Iraq, Gunmen Shoot Dead 30 Others |
| 2013-07-12 |
| [An Nahar] Militants killed 25 Iraqi security forces in a wave of attacks on Thursday, and 15 other people died in other attacks including 10 mourners in twin bombings, officials said. The latest attacks come as Iraq witnesses a surge in violence that has killed more than 2,500 people already this year, including over 240 so far this month. Analysts point to widespread discontent among Iraq's minority Sunni community, and the failure of the Shiite authorities to address their grievances, as the main factors driving the increase in violence. In the single deadliest attack, gunnies rubbed out 14 members of the Iraqi security forces, including 11 charged with protecting the country's vital oil infrastructure, on the road between Haditha and Baiji, northwest of the Iraqi capital. In another bloody attack, a boom-mobile destroyed a funeral tent where family members of a Shiite man were receiving condolences in Muqdadiyah, northeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , and a jacket wallah detonated explosives when emergency personnel arrived. The blasts killed a total of 10 people and maimed 22. Sunni bully boyz including those linked to al-Qaeda frequently target members of the Iraq's Shiite majority, whom they regard as apostates. Iraq was plagued by sectarian violence that killed tens of thousands of people in past years, and there are persistent fears that tensions will again boil over into all-out conflict. In Tikrit, north of Storied Baghdad, three roadside kabooms targeted police patrols, killing three coppers and wounding five. And in Khaldiya, a town in Anbar province, bully boyz opened fire on a cop shoppe, after which one suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt in the station, and another blew up an explosives-rigged car, killing four police and wounding eight. One of the attackers was also rubbed out during the assault. Militants also fired three mortars at the police directorate in 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... also in Anbar, after which a suicide boom-mobileer struck near the building, and festivities broke out. One policeman was killed and three more maimed in the violence. The attacks came after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a convoy on a highway in Anbar on Wednesday night, killing two coppers and wounding two others. A boom-mobile also rocked south-central Storied Baghdad on Thursday, killing one policeman and two civilians, and wounding nine. In the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, gunnies killed a soldier in front of his home, and a roadside kaboom killed a policeman and maimed another. Another man was rubbed out south of djinn-infested Mosul, while gunnies killed a man in the Sharqat area, northwest of Storied Baghdad. And in the northern town of Tuz Khurmatu, a boom-mobile maimed 32 people, while two other boom-mobiles northwest of the city of Kirkuk maimed 14. |
| Posted by:Fred |