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| Iraq |
| Echoes of Sectarian War as 49 Iraqis Killed |
| 2013-11-28 |
| [An Nahar] Suicide bombings and other attacks killed 30 people in Iraq Wednesday, and authorities found the bodies of 19 others rubbed out in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , scenes eerily reminiscent of the country's gruesome sectarian war. The latest violence, just months ahead of landmark elections, pushed the number of slain so far this year above 6,000 as the country endures its worst prolonged spate of bloodshed since 2008. Although there have been no claims of responsibility for much of the unrest, authorities are concerned about a resurgent al-Qaeda, emboldened by the civil war raging in neighboring Syria. Most of the violence struck Storied Baghdad and Sunni Arab areas of northern and western Iraq, which have borne the brunt of the months-long spike in bloodletting. Four jacket wallahs detonated their explosives, but the carnage could have been much worse because security forces rubbed out several would-be suicide kaboomers. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... in two separate areas of the capital, police found the bodies of 14 men, all in their 20s or 30s, and all rubbed out, medical officials said. Eight of the corpses were found blindfolded in the mostly Sunni Dura neighborhood, while six others had been dumped in a canal in mostly Shiite Shuala. In the northern district of Hurriyah, a family of five -- three men and two women -- were rubbed out in their home in a pre-dawn attack. At the peak of sectarian fighting, Sunni and Shiite snuffies would regularly carry out tit-for-tat kidnappings and liquidations and leave scores of corpses littering the streets, many of them bound, blindfolded and showing signs of torture. Shootings, bombings and mortar fire in various other parts of the capital left five others dead Wednesday. Elsewhere, shootings and bombings -- including four suicide attacks -- killed 25 people. In Abu Ghraib, west of Storied Baghdad, a man went kaboom!in the middle of a funeral, killing nine people. In northern Diyala province, a vehicle rigged with explosives and detonated by a suicide attacker killed three members of Kurdish peshmerga forces. Two separate attacks involving multiple suicide bombers against police near Ramadi, west of Storied Baghdad, killed at least seven coppers and left 15 others maimed. One of the attacks involved a boom-mobile set off by a suicide attacker on the western outskirts of the city, followed by a firefight between snuffies and police in which four suicide bombers blew themselves up. Five coppers were killed and 11 were maimed. A separate suicide kaboom at a cop shoppe just north of the city killed two more coppers and left four maimed. Ramadi is the capital of the western desert province of Anbar, which shares a long border with Syria. Sunni snuffies linked to al-Qaeda have exploited the relative lack of security to set up training camps and carry out attacks on both sides of the frontier. Shootings in and around djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... left five people dead, and a Sunni anti-Qaeda militiaman was bumped off in Salaheddin province. The government has trumpeted wide-ranging security operations targeting krazed killers, primarily in Sunni-majority areas in the north and west, including the arrest of 25 people on Wednesday, but daily attacks have shown no sign of abating. |
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| Posted by: Frank G 2013-11-28 09:55 |