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| Iraq |
| Attacks in and North of Baghdad Kill 8 |
| 2015-04-11 |
[AnNahar] A boom-mobile went off near one of Baghdad's landmark hotels and suicide kaboomer went kaboom!in a restaurant north of the Iraqi capital Friday, killing eight people, police said. The explosives-laden vehicles rocked the central Baghdad neighbourhood of Karrada, near the upmarket Babylon hotel that overlooks the Tigris. A police colonel said at least three people were killed 12 maimed in the blast, which occurred at a time when many civilians gather for midday Friday prayers. A hospital official confirmed the toll. Such attacks, once almost daily in the capital, decreased in frequency this year after security forces pushed jihadist Death Eaters back from parts of the Baghdad belt and dismantled a bomb-making cell. In Mashahdah, a town around 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Baghdad, a jacket wallah detonated his explosives vest in a restaurant, killing at least five people, an official at the interior ministry said. Most of the casualties of the blast, which also left 15 people maimed, were members of the Popular Mobilisation units, an umbrella group under which many Shiite militias have been fighting jihadists alongside government forces. Mashahdah straddles the main northbound road from Baghdad to the northern front of the battle against the 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.... group, including cities such as Samarra and Tikrit. |
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