...a formerly good idea gone bad...
World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was impacted by the detonation of an improvised bomb in the Nineveh Plains on Wednesday, injuring an employee, according to a statement by United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
An earlier statement from the Iraqi Security Media Cell had reported that two employees were maimed.
The explosion took place in the village of Shaqoli on the Erbil-djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
road, according to the cell statement, published by Iraqi state media.
The blast was confirmed by Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, while addressing the Security Council.
"In terms of security, conditions for humanitarian actors are also hazardous in certain areas, as was starkly highlighted today by the IED explosion that impacted a World Food Programme convoy in Ninewa," she said of the security situation in Iraq, not mentioning any injuries or casualties.
Rudaw English has reached out to WFP for comment, but has not received a response by the time of publication.
Several other IED explosions have taken place in Iraq in August, including three against companies which have contracts with the Global Coalition against the Islamic State
...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) in Baghdad, Diwaniya and Dhi Qar provinces - according to separate statements by Iraq’s security cell.
No one has taken credit for the Wednesday’s convoy attack, but ISIS remnants are commonly active in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.