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| Iraq |
| Qaida Group Claims Baghdad Bombs as New Attacks Kill 7 |
| 2013-09-09 |
| [An Nahar] An al-Qaeda group claimed a series of boom-mobiles targeting Shiites in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... last week as renewed violence killed seven people on Sunday amid a nationwide surge in bloodshed. The latest attacks and claims came as authorities carried out wide-ranging operations targeting forces of Evil and implemented tight restrictions on vehicle movement in the capital in a bid to combat Iraq's worst violence since 2008. In a statement posted on jihadi forums, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed a spate of evening bombings targeting Shiite neighborhoods of Storied Baghdad on Tuesday, which it said were in retaliation for operations carried out by soldiers and police against Sunni parts of the country. Sunni forces of Evil linked to the group frequently attack members of Iraq's Shiite Mohammedan majority, whom they regard as apostates. The dozen boom-mobiles on Tuesday killed 50 people and maimed more than 100 in the capital, security and medical officials said. Several other attacks in Storied Baghdad and elsewhere the same day killed 11 others. The violence showed no signs of abating on Sunday, with seven killed in shootings and bombings. North of Storied Baghdad in the ethnically mixed town of Jalawla, a gunman opened fire on a cop shoppe inside a government compound, giving cover for a jacket wallah to blow himself up. Two people were killed, including a policeman, and seven others were maimed, officials said. Also north of the capital in Samarra, three anti-al-Qaeda Sunni militiamen, known as the Sahwa, were rubbed out. |
| Posted by:Fred |