...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) have grabbed credit for a twin explosion that rocked the city of Baghdad late on Monday, killing five civilians and injuring several others.
Two jacket wallahs blew themselves up in the Shiite Abu al-Fadhel al-Abbas mosque compound in al-Turath district, southwest Baghdad, according to AFP.
A mourning ceremony was taking place at a Husseiniyah, a site of Shiite congregation, inside the mosque compound when the earth-shattering kabooms occurred.
A video circulated on social media appears to show those injured bring taken to hospital.
Islamic State took responsibility for the twin blast in Baghdad on Monday, according to one of their propaganda outlets, claiming to have killed and maimed 70 people.
An official statement on the incident has yet to be made by the Iraqi interior ministry.