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| Suicide car bomb attack kills 17 in Iraq: police, doctor |
| 2014-10-08 |
| [DAWN] A jacket wallah rammed an explosives-laden armoured vehicle into houses used by Shia gunnies north of the Iraqi city of Samarra, killing at least 17 people, police and medical sources said Tuesday. The attack took place in Abbasiya, around 15 kilometres (nine miles) north of Samarra, on Monday evening and completely destroyed two houses, the sources said. Thirteen people were also maimed. "The destruction was huge. Those homes were by the (Tigris) river and had been requisitioned by the gunnies to use as an observation post," the police officer said. He said the gunnies were monitoring the river to prevent Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist fighters coming from the east from crossing over to the west bank. The main road leading from Baghdad to the north of the country runs through Samarra on the west bank of the Tigris. Samarra is a mainly Sunni city that is home to one of the holiest Shia Moslem sites in Iraq which is guarded by large contingents of Shia militiamen. |
| Posted by:Fred |