Posted on 07/03/2016 1:51:16 AM PDT by Pinkbell
A suicide car bombing claimed by Isil killed at least 75 people in a Baghdad shopping district in the early hours of Sunday, officials said, the deadliest single attack in the capital this year.
The blast, which ripped through a street in the Karrada area where many people go to shop ahead of the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, also wounded more than 130 people, security and medical officials said.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) issued a statement claiming the suicide car bombing, saying it was carried out by an Iraqi as part of the group's "ongoing security operations".
The jihadist group said the bombing targeted members of Iraq's Shia Muslim majority, whom it considers heretics and frequently attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere.
The bombing came a week after Iraqi forces completely recaptured Fallujah, a city 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad that was a key Isil stronghold.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
By all means, let's continue the same foreign policy we've got going now. A third term of the female Obama will do the trick.
Well stated.
Actually worse. Update (excerpt from Fox):
BAGHDAD – At least 83 people have been killed and 176 wounded in two separate bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Sunday morning, Iraqi officials said.
In the deadliest attack, a car bomb hit Karada, a busy shopping district in the center of Baghdad, killing 78 people and wounding 160, according to police and hospital officials. It struck as families and young people were out on the streets after breaking their daylight fast for the holy month of Ramadan.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement posted online, saying they had deliberately targeted Shiite Muslims. The statement could not be independently verified.
At dawn Sunday, fire fighters were still working to extinguish the blazes and bodies were still being recovered from charred buildings. Many of the dead were children, according to Associated Press reporters at the scene. Ambulances could be heard rushing to the site for hours after the blast. An eyewitness said the explosion caused fires at nearby clothing and cellphone shops.
Hours after the bombing, Iraq’s prime minister visited the blast site. Video footage uploaded to social media showed an angry crowd, with people calling Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi a “thief” and shouting at his convoy.
In the second attack, an improvised explosive device went off in eastern Baghdad, killing 5 people and wounding 16. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Many of the dead they were pulling out were children. These monsters. These absolute monsters. They have no souls. They have given them to the devil.
Close the mosques. Ban the koran. Forbid sharia. Everywhere.
It’s ISIS.
Under Obama’s reasoning this cannot be classified as an act of terrorism because guns were not used.
Thanks for posting. Iraq Pounded Again. The JV (Jihad Varsity) is running up the score, as cheerleaders Barry and Hillary do flips for the spectators. UNaccountable bureaucrats are taking care of business. They love to work at nothing all day.
Game on.
Thankfully the Russians are fighting this jayvee bunch. Obama has done nothing to defeat Isis. Our effort has only been for show.
Thankfully the Russians are fighting this jayvee bunch. Obama has done nothing to defeat Isis. Our effort has only been for show.
IS the JV (Jihad Varsity) licensed to drive a Tesla autopilot car?
There is no living side by side with these savages.
Living with them means you are dead.
Iraq’s Arabs slaughtered and drove out their Jews.
The sins of the Farhud have been visited on their descendants.
It hard to muster up sympathy for people who now hate each other as much as they hated the Jews who used to live among them.
Obama = ISIS
ISIS = Obama
This crap will continue UNTIL we start targeting the entire family of these killers.
Take out their children, moms dads sisters brothers dogs and cats. And burn their homes to the ground
If these killers know the results would be this the crap would stop.
Obama says the JV team is on the run.
“Obama says the JV team is on the run.”
Alliterative Puppet Boy Kerry says “’DAESH’ is desperate”.
And... collect the remains of the suicide bombers in plastic bags and dump the remains in a pig pen.
They should be treated like the plague
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