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muriel_volestrangler

(101,349 posts)
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 08:46 AM Apr 2016

Wave of suicide attacks kill at least 29 people across Iraq

Source: AP

Militants unleashed on Monday a wave of suicide attacks across Iraq, killing at least 29 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

The deadliest attack took place in the southern province of Dhi Qar when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a restaurant that is frequented by Shiite paramilitary militia fighters, killing at least 14 people.

Another 27 people were wounded in the attack that targeted a famous restaurant on the main highway that links Baghdad with the southern provinces, a police officer said.
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At around the same time, a suicide car bomber set off his explosives-laden car in a commercial area in the oil-rich city of Basra, killing at least five people and wounding 10 others, another police officer said.


Read more: http://www.news-sentinel.com/news/us-and-world/Wave-of-suicide-attacks-kill-at-least-29-people-across-Iraq

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Botany

(70,559 posts)
1. The # of suicide car bombs in Iraq prior to w & Cheney's war = 0
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 09:35 AM
Apr 2016



But please let's look @ Hillary's email server.

LS_Editor

(893 posts)
3. Yup. Let's take out the secular dictator in Iraq, who prevents Islamic terrorists from operating.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 10:23 AM
Apr 2016

There.

Brilliant.

Botany

(70,559 posts)
4. In late Jan. 2003 w did not know that there was a difference between ....
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 10:32 AM
Apr 2016

... Shi and Sunni Muslims and he thought having troops from India
policing a post Saddam Iraq was a good idea. >1.5 million dead,
4,864 US troops dead (not counting the 100s of thousands of vets w/brain
cancer, traumatic brain injuries [blast traumas] and suicides), production of ISIS, and
500,000 + refugees now trying to flee Syria are just some of the costs
of w & Cheney's war.

MariaThinks

(2,495 posts)
6. i loathe the bushes and neocons but there were a lot of brutal killings under hussein
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 10:50 AM
Apr 2016

the kurds, innocent Iraqis and other minorities.

LS_Editor

(893 posts)
7. Where do we draw the line? People are being brutally killed in many areas of the world.
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 03:05 PM
Apr 2016

Those just don't have oil, and our "allies" in the region (like the good old Saudis) are some of the worst human rights offenders in the world.

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