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| Splodydope kills 12 at Sunni funeral in Iraq | |
| 2013-09-23 | |
On Saturday, two bombings targeted people mourning a tribal sheikh in Sadr City, a Shia district of north Baghdad, killing at least 73 and wounding more than 200. And on Friday, two bombs exploded in a Sunni mosque near Samarra, north of Baghdad, killing 18 and wounding 21. “Retaliation can only bring more violence and it is the responsibility of all leaders to take strong action not to let violence escalate further,” Gyorgy Busztin, the UN chief’s deputy special representative for Iraq, said in a statement. “Attacks like these are perpetrated by a small minority of terrorists who wish to destabilise Iraq,” the British embassy said of the Sadr City blasts. Mourners placed coffins containing the bodies of victims of the Sadr City bombings atop vehicles for transport to Najaf on Sunday for burial near the shrine of Imam Ali, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam. A bare metal frame was all that remained of a large funeral tent at the scene of the explosions. Debris including broken plastic furniture and bottles of water distributed to mourners littered the ground. Eighteen more people died in other violence on Saturday, including 11 members of the security forces, and four people shot dead at a Baghdad alcohol shop. In other violence on Sunday, attacks in Nineveh province in Iraq’s north killed two police and a soldier and wounded seven people. And in the northern city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near the home of a Christian MP, wounding 47 people including three of the lawmaker’s children. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 "Retaliation can only bring more violence and it is the responsibility of all leaders to take strong action not to let violence escalate further," Nice words, dude. But we are talking about a feud that goes back to the death of Profit Mo himself (ptui). Doesn't appear to be abating in the least. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-09-23 15:21 |
| #3 Yea!! |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2013-09-23 15:09 |
| #2 Boys will be boys. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-09-23 04:04 |
| #1 No, they don't miss us yet. It was our fault before we were there, it was our fault while we were there, and it's our fault since we left. Got it? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-23 00:20 |