[VOA News] The Islamic State group has grabbed credit for a wave of boom-mobiles in mostly Shi'ite areas of Baghdad which killed at least 27 people on Saturday.The hardline Sunni Islamist organization which has led an offensive across northern and western Iraq said two of the kabooms were suicide missions by bombers it named as Abum al-Qaaqaa al-Almaani and Abu Abdul Rahman al-Shami - noms de guerre which suggested they were from Germany and Syria.
Saturday's blasts were the deadliest in the Iraqi capital since the Sunni insurgency erupted in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and then swept through Sunni regions of Iraq towards Baghdad.
The first suicide kaboom took place at a checkpoint where soldiers, police and Shi'ite volunteer fighters were gathered, the Islamic State said in an Internet statement. The other struck in Kadhimiya, the site of a major Shi'ite shrine.
At the same time two boom-mobiles were set off in the west of the capital. "The toll of these blessed operations was the killing and wounding of 150 people," the statement said, warning of greater attacks to come.