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Iraq
Suicide bombers kill dozens in Baghdad, ISIS claims they dunnit
2015-09-18
[Rudaw] Dozens of people have reportedly been killed and maimed in two suicide kabooms in Baghdad, according to a Rudaw news hound on Thursday.

Bahman Hassan, a Rudaw correspondent in Baghdad, said that according to security sources many people were killed and maimed, but he did not cite an official figure.

Hassan added that the jacket wallahs were wearing boom belts. One of them went kaboom! in Bab Al-Sharqi, a neighborhood in central Baghdad, and the other one in Wathba Square.

Iraq experiences near-daily bombings that are often claimed by 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, which seized a large swath of the country during an offensive last year.

24 dead, 121 wounded, the final outcome of 2 suicide bombings in Baghdad

[IraqiNews] Baghdad -- A source in the police announced on Thursday, that the final outcome of two suicide kabooms in the capital Baghdad amounted to 24 dead and 121 maimed.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "The final toll of the suicide kaboom that took place in Al Wathba Square stood at 11 dead and 57 maimed, while the final outcome of the Haraj market suicide kaboom reached 13 dead and 64 maimed."

The source, who asked anonymity, added: "The security forces have stepped up its deployment in a number of areas of the capital in anticipation of other bombings."

ISIS claims responsipility for two bombings in central Baghdad

[IraqiNews] Baghdad -- On Thursday the so-called ISIS grabbed credit for the suicide kabooms that targeted Al Wathba Square and the eastern area of central Baghdad.

"Rooters" said in a report today, that the ISIS organization announced in a statement its responsibility for the two suicide kabooms in the two areas inhabited by Shi'ite citizens in the center of Baghdad.

The statement noted that two ISIS elements wearing explosive vests targeted the police and fighters of gangs.
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